Pricey Picasso painting in London
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March 8, 2011, Tuesday
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THE most expensive painting to be sold at auction, Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," went on public display in Britain for the first time yesterday at the Tate Modern gallery in London.
The 1932 work, which sold for US$106.5 million at Christie's in New York last year, has been lent to the Tate galleries from a private collection and will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream section.
"'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' is one of the sequence of paintings of Picasso's muse, Marie-Therese Walter, made by the artist at Boisgeloup, Normandy, in the early months of 1932," said Nicholas Serota, the Tate's director. "They are widely regarded as amongst his greatest achievements of the inter-war period."
Picasso first encountered Walter in 1927, but their relationship had to remain secret from his wife, Olga.
According to the Tate, it was only in 1931-2 that he began to make sculptures and paintings in which the manipulation of Walter's body was explicit and eroticized.
Although Picasso had long disguised his affair with Walter, "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" was among the works that openly charted the lovers' obsession with each other.
Before it was sold in May, the piece had been in the collection of Sidney and Frances Brody for almost six decades.
The 1932 work, which sold for US$106.5 million at Christie's in New York last year, has been lent to the Tate galleries from a private collection and will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream section.
"'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' is one of the sequence of paintings of Picasso's muse, Marie-Therese Walter, made by the artist at Boisgeloup, Normandy, in the early months of 1932," said Nicholas Serota, the Tate's director. "They are widely regarded as amongst his greatest achievements of the inter-war period."
Picasso first encountered Walter in 1927, but their relationship had to remain secret from his wife, Olga.
According to the Tate, it was only in 1931-2 that he began to make sculptures and paintings in which the manipulation of Walter's body was explicit and eroticized.
Although Picasso had long disguised his affair with Walter, "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" was among the works that openly charted the lovers' obsession with each other.
Before it was sold in May, the piece had been in the collection of Sidney and Frances Brody for almost six decades.
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