Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur
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Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur) is the 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso featuring his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. The painting had been in the possession of Los Angeles art collectors Frances and Sidney Brody since the 1950s. Since its purchase by them, it has only been exhibited once, in 1961.
Auction
On 4 May 2010, the painting was sold at Christie's in New York City. The 1932 work was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009. Christie's won the rights to auction the collection against London-based Sotheby's. The collection as a whole was valued at over US$150 million, while the work was originally expected to earn $80 million at auction.
There were more than half a dozen bidders, while the winning bid was taken via telephone for $95 million. Including the buyer's premium, the price reached for US$106.5 million. When inflation is ignored, the painting broke the record price for an art work sold at auction which a previous auction record was set in February 2010, by Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme qui marche I at $104.3 million.
The most expensive work of art sold at a public auction remained Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which was bought in May 1990 for $82.5 million (approx. $138.4 million in CPI-adjusted 2010 US dollars), while Jackson Pollock's No. 5, 1948, which was privately sold for $140 million in 2006 (approx. $151 million in 2010 dollars), remained the most expensive work of art sold overall.
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