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| Femme assise a 1909 Cubist work by Pablo Picasso courtesy of Sotheby's |
Femme assise
Picasso painted Femme Assise, which was inspired by his lover Fernande Olivier, while in a small Spanish village called Horta de Ebro, accessible only by mule. There, Picasso further developed the revolutionary Cubist style, distorting his subject through the use of angular geometric forms, that he had begun two years before with his groundbreaking Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907).
Experts have described the period as being “the most crucial and productive” in his career.
Femme Assise (1909), which was last sold publicly in London for £340,000 in 1973, is regarded as one of the artist’s greatest Cubist portraits. It was sold for £43.2 million ($63.4 million) at a Sotheby's London auction on June 21, 2016, almost $20 million more than the original estimate.
Experts have described the period as being “the most crucial and productive” in his career.
Femme Assise (1909), which was last sold publicly in London for £340,000 in 1973, is regarded as one of the artist’s greatest Cubist portraits. It was sold for £43.2 million ($63.4 million) at a Sotheby's London auction on June 21, 2016, almost $20 million more than the original estimate.
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