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Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (French: Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur) is a 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter.

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
French: Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Year	1932 (1932)
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	162 cm × 130 cm (64 in × 51 in)
Location	Private collection (Currently on long-term loan to Tate Modern)

The painting was in the personal collection of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and Frances Brody for nearly six decades. It sold at auction for US$106.5 million, the third highest price for a piece of artwork sold at auction at the time.[1]

Background

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is one of a series of portraits that Picasso painted of his mistress and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter from 1932. The vibrant blue and lilac canvas is more than 5 feet (1.5 m) tall.

At the time, Picasso was in an exclusive contractual relationship with noted impressionist and post-impressionist French-Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who bought the painting direct from his friend. With the increasing tones of an approaching war, in the late 1930s Rosenberg started to distribute works from his 2,000+ piece collection around the world, and used the 1939 New York World's Fair as the excuse to ship the painting outside France. After the 1940 Nazi invasion of France, on reaching New York via Lisbon in September 1940, Rosenberg opened a new branch of his noted gallery on East 57th street and put the painting back on display.

From there it was bought by the Brodys in 1951, and was publicly exhibited only once in 1961, to commemorate Picasso's 80th birthday.[2][3]

Auction

Frances Brody died in November 2009. On May 4, 2010, the painting was sold at Christie's in New York City, who won the rights to auction the collection against London-based Sotheby's. The collection as a whole was valued at over US$150 million, while the work was originally expected to earn $80 million at auction.[4]

There were eight bidders at the auction house, while the winning bid was taken via telephone for $95 million.[3] Including the buyer's premium, the price reached US$106.5 million.[5] When inflation is ignored, the painting broke the record price for an art work sold at auction until it was surpassed by the selling of The Scream on May 2, 2012 for US$120 million.[6]

See also

• List of most expensive paintings

Notes

References

На других языках

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[de] Akt mit grünen Blättern und Büste

Akt mit grünen Blättern und Büste, auch Nackte, grüne Blätter und Büste, spanisch: Desnudo, hojas verdes y busto, französisch: Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur, englisch: Nude, green leaves, and bust, ist ein Ölgemälde des spanischen Malers, Grafikers und Bildhauers Pablo Picasso aus dem Jahr 1932.[1]

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- [en] Nude, Green Leaves and Bust

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[es] Desnudo, hojas verdes y busto

Desnudo, hojas verdes y busto es una pintura de Pablo Picasso de 1932 en la que retrató a su amante Marie-Thérèse Walter.[1] La obra fue parte de la colección de arte de Sidney y Frances Brody, de Los Ángeles, desde la década de 1950 hasta 2010. Durante ese período, solo se exhibió una vez, en 1961.[2] En 2010 se convirtió en la obra más cara de la historia vendida en una subasta, cuando fue adquirida por 106,4 millones de dólares.[3]

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[fr] Nu au plateau de sculpteur

Nu au plateau de sculpteur est un tableau de Pablo Picasso réalisé en 1932. Le sujet est Marie-Thérèse Walter, la maîtresse de Picasso.

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[ru] Обнажённая, зелёные листья и бюст

«Обнажённая, зелёные листья и бюст» (фр. Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur, англ. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust) — одна из знаменитой серии сюрреалистических картин 1932 года, на которых Пабло Пикассо затейливо преобразил свою новую возлюбленную Марию-Терезу Вальтер (возможно, придав ей облик мифической Дафны).

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