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Picasso painting makes 42.1 million Euro
'The Absinthe Drinker', from Pablo Picasso’s blue period, has been sold for 42.1 million € at Christie’s auction house in London.
It’s a portrait of his childhood friend, Ángel Fernández de Soto and was sold as part of a modern and impressionist art sale which includes other works by Picasso, as well as Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Magritte, Rodin and Kandinsky.
Picasso met Ángel Fernández de Soto in 1899 in the famous Barcelona café ‘Els quatre Gats’ frequented at the time by artists and bohemians, and they became inseparable friends.
The money raised will go to the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. The British composer purchased the painting in 1995 for 29.2 million dollars.
It’s a portrait of his childhood friend, Ángel Fernández de Soto and was sold as part of a modern and impressionist art sale which includes other works by Picasso, as well as Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Magritte, Rodin and Kandinsky.
Picasso met Ángel Fernández de Soto in 1899 in the famous Barcelona café ‘Els quatre Gats’ frequented at the time by artists and bohemians, and they became inseparable friends.
The money raised will go to the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. The British composer purchased the painting in 1995 for 29.2 million dollars.
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