Picasso's “Seated Woman in Blue Dress” auctioned for $45 millionMay 16, 2017 - 15:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - One of Pablo Picasso's best-known portraits has been sold at auction in New York for $45m, BBC News reports. Femme Assise, Robe Bleu (Seated Woman in Blue Dress) features one of his many lovers, Dora Maar. During World War Two, the Nazis seized the painting but were intercepted on their way from Paris to Moravia by French Resistance fighters. In 2015, Picasso's Women of Algiers sold for $179m at Christie's - a record for a picture sold at auction. Seated Woman went to a US collector and six years ago it was sold for $26m. Dora Maar and Picasso had an intense relationship for nine years. He painted Seated Woman in 1939, when he was 58 and she was 31. It is one of the great Picasso portraits of his middle years, inspired - as so often - by love and by powerful sexual desire, BBC arts correspondent Vincent Dowd reports. Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |