NEW YORK (AP) — A 1965 Pablo Picasso painting inspired by his wife has sold for $9.3 million at a New York City auction.
Wednesday’s price for "Woman with the Large Hat, Bust" at the Sotheby’s auction house was in line with its pre-sale estimate.
The painting depicts Jacqueline Roque, who married Picasso in 1961. It hung for 50 years in the Manhattan apartment of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, a sister of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It was sold by Lawford’s estate.
The sale came a day after a record sale for a 1932 Picasso painting of his mistress. "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" sold at a Christie’s auction for $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction.