A celebrated masterpiece by Pablo Picasso sold on Tuesday at Sotheby’s auction house in London for 25.2 million pounds (NT$1.2 billion), more than double its pre-auction valuation.
“La Lecture” is a work from the Spanish painter’s “annus mirabilis,” 1932, and depicts the artist’s famous muse, Marie-Therese Walter. The painting was sold for the equivalent of US$40.7 million or 29.7 million euros.
Its expected sale price was 12 million pounds.
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Tuesday’s sale — which also included works by Wassily Kandinsky, Rene Magritte and Edouard Manet — fetched a total of 68.8 million pounds, according to the auction house’s website.
Seven bidders vied for the coveted Picasso work, the hammer eventually coming down after six minutes of bidding to finalize the sale to an anonymous phone buyer.
Picasso met Walter when he was 45 and she was 17 outside the Galeries Lafayette in Paris in 1927, while he was still married to Olga Khoklova.
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週二在倫敦蘇富比拍賣會，巴布羅‧畢卡索的一幅巨作以兩千五百二十萬英鎊（約新台幣十二億元）的高價落槌，比拍賣前的預估多出兩倍。
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原預期價為一千兩百萬英鎊。
根據拍賣公司的網站，周二的拍賣會還包含瓦西里‧康丁斯基、雷內‧馬格利特與愛德華‧馬奈的作品，一共以六千八百八十萬英鎊賣出。
有七位競標者爭相下標這幅眾所渴望的畢卡索作品，經過六分鐘激烈喊價後，由一名匿名人士透過電話出價得標定案。
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法新社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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