Picasso predicted to fetch $140m

It has the highest-ever estimate placed on a work of art at auction. Predicted to fetch ‘in the region of $140m’, Christie’s are offering Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)’ in New York on May 11.

The 1955 painting will appear in a newly launched evening sale of 20th century art entitled 'Looking…

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