Femme Nue, Picasso's cubist vision of one of his many mistresses, grabbed the brass ring Tuesday at a Sotheby's auction in New York. It fetched US$11 million, easily outdistancing Richard Diebenkorn's Horizon-Ocean View, which sold for nearly $4 million. Sotheby's two-day haul totalled $212 million, selling off contemporary, modern, and impressionist works by such worthies as Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg.
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, Picasso's cubist vision of one of his many mistresses, grabbed the brass ring Tuesday at a Sotheby's auction in New York. It fetched US$11 million, easily outdistancing Richard Diebenkorn's , which sold for nearly $4 million. Sotheby's two-day haul totalled $212 million, selling off contemporary, modern, and impressionist works by such worthies as Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg.
