Picasso painting sets auction record

Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers has set a world record for artwork sold at auction, going for $179.3 million at Christie’s in New York

Women of Algiers (Version O) – cubist oil painting is part of 15-work series created by Picasso in 1954-55

Alberto Giacometti’s Pointing Man also set world record –for most expensive sculpture – at same auction
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TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE ARTWORKS Auction Private sale

Artist Title Year of sale Price ($)

2015 Paul Gauguin When Will You Marry? (1892) $300.0m

2011 Paul Cézanne The Card Players (1893) $259.0m

2014 Mark Rothko No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) (1951) $186.0m

2015 Pablo Picasso Women of Algiers (1955) $179.3m

2013 Pablo Picasso The Dream (1932) $155.0m

2013 Francis Bacon Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969)  $142.4m

2015 Alberto Giacometti Pointing Man (1947) $141.3m

2006 Jackson Pollock No. 5 (1948) $140.0m

2006 Willem de Kooning Woman III (1953) $137.5m

2006 Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) $135.0m
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Source: Wire agencies

Pictures: Associated Press

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