Monday, April 20, 2009

Pablo Picasso: Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat)

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Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat) is a 1941 painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar, the painter's Croatian mistress, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders. This painting is world-famous and is now one of the world's most expensive paintings.

Dora Maar au Chat came up for sale in an auction of Impressionist/Modern works held at Sotheby's on May 3, 2006 in New York and making it the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. An anonymous Russian bidder present at the New York auction won the work with a final bid of US$95,216,000

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Pablo Picasso: Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat), Video.
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Pablo Picasso: Dora Maar au Chat Video
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