On May 5, 2004 the painting was sold for US$104,168,000 at Sotheby's auction in New York City. Sotheby’s did not say who bought the painting. At the time, it broke the record for the amount paid for an auctioned painting (when inflation is ignored).
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Le Garcon a la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe), 1905 by Pablo Picasso