{"id":11781,"date":"2025-10-25T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/lifestyle-ent\/picasso-painting-held-in-private-collection-sells-for-31-million-at-paris-auction\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:23:02","slug":"picasso-painting-held-in-private-collection-sells-for-31-million-at-paris-auction","status":"publish","type":"lifestyle-ent","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/lifestyle-ent\/picasso-painting-held-in-private-collection-sells-for-31-million-at-paris-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso painting held in private collection sells for $31 million at Paris auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, believed to be depicting his muse and partner Dora Maar, fetched 27 million Euros ($31.49 million) at a Paris auction on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The work, titled &#8220;Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora Maar) 1943&#8221;, was acquired by a French family in 1944 and remained in their private collection for decades until its heirs decided to sell it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sale price including fees was 32 million Euros ($37.3 million), a Spokesperson for the Drouot auction house said. The buyer was in the auction room, but was not identified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The canvas had never been shown to the public before the auction and the only proof of its existence had been a 1944 picture of the painting, art experts said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s without a doubt the most moving work of Picasso that involved his muse, because he was about to leave her (Dora Maar) for (French painter) Francoise Gilot,&#8221; auctioneer Christophe Lucien said.<br \/>\n&#8220;And through this portrait, we see a woman who holds back her tears. So it&#8217;s lucky for an auctioneer to have a piece of art history before their own eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Art expert Agnes Sevestre-Barbe said the heirs decided to offer the painting for sale as it could not be physically divided among them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11782,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"featured-post":[196,197],"class_list":["post-11781","lifestyle-ent","type-lifestyle-ent","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","featured-post-art","featured-post-picasso-auction","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lifestyle-ent\/11781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lifestyle-ent"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lifestyle-ent"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"featured-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured-post?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}