![]() Walter would become the inspiration for some of his most sought-after canvases, drawings and sculptures.Īs time went on, Picasso found it increasingly difficult to hide his feelings for Walter from his work - something that became clear during his first large-scale retrospective and finally ended his marriage. Picasso first met Walter in Paris in 1927 when she was 17 years old and he was still married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer. Its bold primary colours sing from the five-foot-tall-canvas." Painted in 1932 - Picasso's 'annus mirabilis' - it is full of joyful, passionate abandon yet at the same time it is utterly considered and resolved. In a statement announcing the sale in September, Julian Dawes, Sotheby's head of Impressionist & Modern Art for the Americas, said: "Picasso's 'Femme à la Montre' is a masterpiece by every measure. The piece, which measures 130 x 96.5 centimetres, depicts Picasso's lover and "golden muse" Marie-Thérèse Walter, who featured in many of his portraits.Īccording to the auction house, the portrait is from one of the most prolific years of the Spanish artist's career, which was the subject of an entire exhibition organised by the Musée Picasso in Paris and London's Tate Modern in 2018. ![]() ![]() A Picasso masterpiece entitled Femme à la montre has fetched more than $US139 million ($217 million), becoming the second most valuable work by the artist ever sold at auction. ![]()
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