{"id":6583,"date":"2025-10-27T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:03:13","slug":"hidden-picasso-portrait-of-dora-maar-fetches-e32-million-in-paris-frances-costliest-art-auction-sale-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6583","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar Fetches \u20ac32 Million in Paris\u2014France\u2019s Costliest Art Auction Sale of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pablo Picasso painting unseen in public for eight decades has sold for <strong>\u20ac32 million<\/strong>\u2014about <strong>Tk 455 crore<\/strong> (at \u20ac1=Tk142)\u2014at a Paris auction house, surpassing expectations and marking <strong>France\u2019s highest-priced art sale at auction this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Titled <strong>\u201cBust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora Maar)\u201d<\/strong>, the vivid 1943 portrait captures Picasso\u2019s long-time muse and companion <strong>Dora Maar<\/strong>, herself an artist and photographer. Painted in July 1943 as their relationship neared a painful end, the work was first sold in 1944 and then disappeared into a private family collection, remaining out of public view until this week. An in-room bidder secured the canvas, prompting auctioneer <strong>Christophe Lucien<\/strong> to hail the result as \u201can outstanding success,\u201d adding that the portrait reads like \u201ca small fragment of a love story,\u201d with emotion visible \u201cin her tearful eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maar met Picasso at age 29 and was central to his life and work for roughly seven years before he later partnered with Fran\u00e7oise Gilot. After their separation, Maar withdrew from the limelight; she died at 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the price is not a record for Picasso at auction\u2014his <strong>\u201cLes Femmes d\u2019Alger (Version O)\u201d<\/strong> achieved <strong>$179.3 million<\/strong> in 2015\u2014Monday\u2019s sale underscores sustained demand for museum-quality works tied to significant chapters of the artist\u2019s life. In 2023, <strong>\u201cWoman with a Watch\u201d (1932)<\/strong> realised <strong>$139 million<\/strong>, the second-highest auction price for a Picasso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in <strong>M\u00e1laga in 1881<\/strong>, raised in <strong>Barcelona<\/strong>, and settled in <strong>Paris from 1904<\/strong>, Picasso emerged as one of the defining artists of the 20th century. The rediscovery and sale of this wartime portrait of Dora Maar adds a fresh, emotionally charged milestone to his vast market legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pablo Picasso painting unseen in public for eight decades has sold for \u20ac32 million\u2014about Tk 455 crore (at \u20ac1=Tk142)\u2014at a Paris auction house, surpassing expectations and marking France\u2019s highest-priced art sale at auction this year. Titled \u201cBust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora Maar)\u201d, the vivid 1943 portrait captures Picasso\u2019s long-time muse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6589,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions\/6589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}