LONDON, Jan 25 — Christie’s hopes to capitalise on collectors’ enthusiasm for Picasso in its upcoming evening sale “The Art of Surreal.” It will feature, a painting by the Spanish master that has remained in the same private collection for half a century.was done in 1929, during Pablo Picasso’s Surrealist period. The Spanish painter was never a Surrealist artist in the strict sense, although he had a close relationship with this artistic movement.
“[T]his powerful and explosively coloured painting from the highpoint of Picasso’s Surrealist period and two years into his clandestine love affair with Marie-Thérèse, represents a brilliant fusion of the different passions and inspirations that defined the artist’s life at the end of the 1920s.
The painting featured at Christie’s belongs to a series of studio paintings that Picasso initiated in 1926. Some of the works in this series are held in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.will be offered at auction for the first time on March 1, during the evening sale “The Art of Surreal.” It is estimated to fetch between £14 million and £24 million . This is significantly lower than the US$179.
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