We only know a few things about the subject of Pablo Picasso’s 1905 painting “Fillette à la corbeille fleurie,” which sold for $115,000,000 at Christie’s on Tuesday night. We also know that when Picasso painted her, she was a pubescent girl. Not even the sudden newsiness of Picasso’s painting ― on the auction block after sitting in Peggy and David Rockefeller’s possession since 1968 ― has provoked substantial academic inquiry into its subject’s identity. Robert Alexander via Getty Images Picasso's 1907 “Demoiselles d’Avignon” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The distance between Linda’s face and body in “Fillette” foreshadows Picasso’s eventual foray into the avant-garde.

Source: Huffington Post May 09, 2018 00:11 UTC