"Seated Woman" by Picasso sold at auction for $ 63 million

The painting "Seated Woman» (Femme Assise) Spanish artist Pablo Picasso was sold by Sotheby's auction hammer in London for 63.4 million dollars, CNN reported. Cloth, according to the auction house, it became the most expensive work in the cubist style, which is ever put up for auction. The initial cost of the work amounted to 41 million dollars.

The web is written in 1909. According to experts, it shows the artist and his lover Fernande Olivier naturschitsa. Picasso created the painting in the village of Horta del Ebro in Spain, it refers to the period of his work, which critics called the most important and fruitful.
Pablo Picasso's "Seated Woman"

Sotheby's auction continues. Tuesday, June 21 at the auction sold for 56.4 million dollars portrait of French artist and model Jeanne Hebuterne, made by Amedeo Modigliani. Canvas was the main lot in terms of impressionism and modernism.

Although Sotheby's called "Seated Woman" most expensive work in the style of cubism, in May 2015 another work of Picasso in the same art direction was sold at Christie's auction for 179 million dollars - "Women of Algiers (version)", written in 1955 and relating to the late period of the artist.

The founder of the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, according to experts - the most expensive artist in the world.