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Femme à la montre (Woman with a Watch)

Maker
Pablo Picasso
Year
1932
Rank
2 of 100

Femme à la montre (Woman with a Watch)

Femme à la montre (Woman with a Watch) by Pablo Picasso (1932) is ranked 2 in the FLOAT 100 for Fine art. It sold for $139,363,500 on 8 November 2023. Second-most-expensive Picasso ever and top auction lot of 2023; flagship recent Picasso trophy.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

Second-most-expensive Picasso ever and top auction lot of 2023; flagship recent Picasso trophy.

Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm (unique; portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter)

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$139,363,500
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
8 November 2023

Sotheby's New York, Emily Fisher Landau Collection; $121M hammer, $139.4M with fees, native USD

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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