An exhibition featuring a Pablo Picasso painting is set to be displayed in London. Femme A La Montre, the masterpiece painted by Picasso in 1932, is valued to sell for more than $120m (£98m) at an upcoming auction. The painting depicts his “golden muse” Marie-Therese Walter, a woman who inspired many of his artworks.
The painting’s owner, Emily Fisher Landau, is an art patron and collector who bought the piece in 1968. The painting will be showcased at Sotheby’s alongside other paintings from Ms. Fisher Laundau’s collection, which includes works by artists such as Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Rauschenberg. Sundog, a silkscreen painting by Rauschenberg produced in 1962, is also featured in the collection and is estimated to sell for between $8m and $12m.
The traveling exhibition will be shown in various cities around the world, including London, Paris, Taipei, and Los Angeles, and has previously been displayed in Dubai and Hong Kong. The entire collection is estimated to bring in well over £327m ($400m) and will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York in November.
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. He spent most of his childhood in Barcelona before moving to Paris in 1904. Picasso was known for his experimentation with a wide range of styles and themes throughout his long career, most notably inspiring the creation of Cubism. The Spanish painter and sculptor had four children and passed away in 1973 at the age of 92
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