{"id":11396,"date":"2021-05-18T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2021-05-23T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:51:24","slug":"picasso-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/18\/picasso-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso 103"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20210514-picasso-painting-sells-for-103-mn-in-new-york-auction-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from France 24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Picasso painting sells for $103 mn in New York: auction house<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/dc3e670e-b450-11eb-9db8-005056bf87d6\/w:980\/p:16x9\/7e521817273b91247f70a0a2b36917e325be259b.webp\" alt=\"The painting 'Femme assise pr\u00e8s d'une fen\u00eatre (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se)' is the fifth one by Pablo Picasso to sell for more than $100 million\"\/><figcaption><em>The painting &#8216;Femme assise pr\u00e8s d&#8217;une fen\u00eatre (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se)&#8217; is the fifth one by Pablo Picasso to sell for more than $100 million\u00a0DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS AFP\/File<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pablo Picasso&#8217;s &#8220;Woman sitting by a window (Marie-Therese)&#8221; sold Thursday for $103.4 million at Christie&#8217;s in New York, the auction house said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting, completed in 1932, was sold for $90 million, which rose to $103.4 million when fees and commissions were added, after 19 minutes of bidding, Christie&#8217;s said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sale confirms the vitality of the art market despite the Covid-19 pandemic &#8212; but also the special status of Picasso, who was born in 1881 and died in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20210514-picasso-painting-sells-for-103-mn-in-new-york-auction-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at France 24<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from France 24 Picasso painting sells for $103 mn in New York: auction house Pablo Picasso&#8217;s &#8220;Woman sitting by a window (Marie-Therese)&#8221; sold Thursday for $103.4 million at Christie&#8217;s in New York, the auction house said. The painting, completed in 1932, was sold for $90 million, which rose to $103.4 million when fees and commissions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}