Picasso’s La Lecture Sells at Sotheby’s for £25.2 Million in Sale Totalling £68.8 Million

LONDON.- Tonight, Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening sale was led by Pablo Picasso’s iconic 1932 painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter, La Lecture, which sold to a round of applause for £25,241,250 /$40,711,612 / €29,744,296, more than double the low estimate (est. £12 – 18 million/$18.5-27.8 million). Following a heated bidding contest that lasted six minutes among at least seven bidders, both on the phone and in the saleroom, the work finally sold to an anonymous buyer bidding over the telephone. Achieving [...]

A Journey Through British Art from World War II to the Late Sixties at Fundació Joan Miró

BARCELONA.- The Fundació Joan Miró presents Let Us Face the Future, a journey through British art from the end of the Second World War to the late sixties. The exhibition has been organized by the Fundació Joan Miró and the British Council and sponsored by Fundación BBVA. Let Us Face the Future, curated by Andrew Dempsey and Richard Riley, shows, for the first time in Spain, eighty-eight works by British artists from 1945-1968, on loan from the collections of British [...]