Picasso Sells For Highest Price Ever For A Painting

Picasso’s Garcon a la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe)sold for $104 million Wednesday night. The painting is “one of the most important early works by the artist ever to appear on the market. It was the star item in the collection of the late Mr and Mrs John Hay Whitney. The record price previously paid for a painting was $82.5m for Vincent Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet at a Christie’s auction in 1990. The previous high for a Picasso was $55m.”