Pablo Picasso: ‘Nude, Green Leaves and Bust’
$104 million Picasso on display at Tate Modern Pablo Picasso’s ‘Nude, Green Leaves and Bust’, sold in 2010 for a record $106,482,500 (£70,278,450/€81,991,525), has been loaned to Tate Modern by its anonymous owner.]]>
March 8th 2011, source: Tate Modern / theartwolf.com
Referred to as the “lost” 1932 Picasso because it had never before been published in color before its sale, the sensual work made history on May 4th 2010, when it became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. Christie’s described the painting as “the most anticipated work to come to market from private hands in the last decade”. Now, Tate’s director, Nicholas Serota, has said that this painting by Picasso is “regarded as amongst his greatest achievements of the interwar period”.
The painting was bought by an anonymous buyer. After this loan, some rumours point to Roman Abramovich, the Russian billonaire who bought Bacon’s “Triptych (1976)” for a record £43 million ($86.3 million) in 2008.
More Picasso at Tate Modern
In addition to this important loan, Tate Modern has also announced an important exhibition focused on Picasso. “Picasso and Britain” (from 15 February to 15 July 2012), the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain, will explore his rise in Britain as a figure both of controversy and celebrity and reveal the enormous impact he had on British modernism through the work of key British artists.
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