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The 1932 Pablo Picasso painting “Femme nue couchée” sold for $67.5 million on Tuesday at its auction debut at Sotheby’s in New York, the most recent large sale at auction for blue-chip art.

A man walks past artwork titled 'Femme nue couchee’, by Pablo Picasso during a media preview for Sotheby's spring contemporary and modern art sales auction in New York City, US, May 6, 2022.A man walks past artwork titled 'Femme nue couchee’, by Pablo Picasso during a media preview for Sotheby's spring contemporary and modern art sales auction in New York City, US, May 6, 2022.

Auction house Sotheby’s had predicted the Picasso painting, a surrealistic depiction of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, to sell in excess of $60 million. Marie-Thérèse was 17 years old when she met the 45-year-old Picasso in Paris. They began a secret relationship while he was still married to his first wife, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova.

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