Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist and modern art, called the Picasso canvas – which hung in Landau’s living room – “a masterpiece on every scale”.
He said, “Painted in 1932 – Picasso’s ‘Annus Mirabilis’ – it is full of joyful, passionate resignation, yet at the same time thoroughly considered and resolved.”
Walter was considered Picasso’s ‘golden muse’, and another one of his works is being auctioned at Christie’s on Thursday: ‘Femme Endormi’, or ‘Sleeping Woman’, which is estimated to sell for US$25-35 million. Is.
She also starred in ‘Femme Essay Press d’Un Fenêtre (Marie-Therese)’, or ‘Woman Sitting Near a Window’, which sold for US$103.4 million in 2021.
Walter met Picasso in Paris in 1927, when she was just 17 years old and the Spanish artist was still married to Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova. The couple had a daughter, who died last year.