Picasso This painting is the most expensive work of art ever? – Parool.nl

11-05-15 18:52 pm – Source: Het Parool

Employees of Christie’s Les Femmes d’Alger by Pablo Picasso. © ANP

The experts know it is virtually certain: a painting by Pablo Picasso that today New York auctioned will probably break all records and will henceforth be the most expensive work of art in the world

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For whom the art world a little know it’s not so surprising that today probably more than 140 million (over 125 million) dollars will be counted down to Les Femmes d’Alger (Version B) (The Women of Algiers), a painting by Picasso in 1955. And while the painting in 1997 for “only” $ 31.9 million were sold. Since then switched the painting once – privately -. From owner

The works of Picasso appear at auction often assessed each worth more than before, and on top of that there are hardly any great works of the Spanish painter on the private market. There is therefore little doubt among experts that the painting will be sold for more than Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucien Freud,” that exchanged in 2013 for $ 142 million of owner. And so the world after today so a new “most expensive work of art in the world.”

Fifteen versions
Picasso made the work shortly after the death of his friend and rival Henri Matisse and was inspired by an earlier work of French painter Eugene Delacroix, who made a painting in 1834 showing two Algerian women in their apartment. (Les Femmes d’Alger dans leur apartment.) The Spanish painter was fifteen versions of the work, during a months-long work process, which “Version O ‘is the most complete results.

Les Femmes d’Alger is The absolute masterpiece at auction today and Wednesday at Christie’s auction in New York, where it is estimated will be traded for about $ 2.5 billion to contemporary art.

If the current owner is and why he decided to sell the work, was not disclosed. Philip Hoffmann, director of the Fine Art Fund, an investment company which primarily invests in art, tells CNN that “all art collectors in the world this week in New York, or call in. This is a magnificent Picasso, very large and very impressive. For a large collector, this is a status object. ” According to Hoffmann lead the economic recovery to big spending by art collectors. “They make good money, so they spend a lot. This is the perfect time to sell art. ”

(By: Editorial)