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Picasso Leads Sotheby's Print Sale

Published: October 30, 2009
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Pablo Picasso's "La Femme au Tambourin" (1939), aquatint with grattoir, 26 1/8 x 20 1/8 in, sold for $554,500 (est. $500–600,000).

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NEW YORK—Picasso was the star of Sotheby's sale of prints in New York yesterday, with four works making it into the auction's top 10, including the two-session sale's two highest earners, Le Femme au Tambourin (1939), at $554,500, and Buste de Femme de Jeune Fille. d'àpres Cranach le Jeune (1958), at $506,500. Both were estimated to earn $500–600,000.

Of 245 lots offered at the auction, 203 found buyers, for sold rates of 82.9 percent by lot and 83.8 percent by value. All in all, the sale earned $8,477,614, comfortably within its predicted range of $7.6–10.6 million.

Rounding out the top 10 were a Jasper Johns "Flag," Chagall's Daphnis and Chloe, Green by Diebenkorn, Louise Bourgeois's He disappeared Into Complete Silence, a Cy Twombly, and a Warhol "Marilyn."
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