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Unseen Picassos Could Fetch $42M at Auction

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Pablo Picasso, Le Peintre et son modèle (1964). Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Caroline Goldstein Oct 20, 2026

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A Suite of Picassos Heads to Sotheby’s

Four works by Picasso will hit the auction block this November at Sotheby’s New York, two of which have not been on public view since a 1970 exhibition in Avignon. They were painted between 1964 and 1972, in what is dubbed the Spanish master’s “Heroic Years,” when his style took on a loose, expressive quality widely believed to be indicative of a “final flourish” as he entered the last decades of his life.…