Picasso painting sells for €130 million and breaks 2023 art auction record

'Femme à la montre' sold for €130 million and is the second most expensive painting ever sold by Picasso.

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00:00 One of Pablo Picasso`s best-known paintings, "Femme à la montre," or "Woman with Watch,"

00:05 has been sold at an auction for the equivalent of 130 million euros.

00:10 The identity of the buyer who bid via telephone has not been revealed.

00:14 The 1932 piece depicts the Spanish artist muse Marie-Thérèse Walter.

00:19 It had been owned by wealthy New Yorker Emily Fisher Lando, who died this year at the age

00:24 of 102.

00:26 The painting along with several masterpieces by other artists had hung in the living room

00:30 of her Manhattan apartment.

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