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\"Picasso<\/a>Painted in 1934, Le Lecture of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter<\/em> has been announced as the “star lot” of a Sotheby’s auction in London next month.\u00a0 The painting is a portrait by Pablo Picasso<\/a> of his mistress and muse, Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter. The portraits done by Picasso of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter from that same year have become famous in 2006, when Las Vegas Casino owner Steve Wynn put his elbow through the Dream oil painting, a portrait of the same Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, creating a six inch tear just as he was about to sell the painting for $139 million to an anonymous buyer from Wall Street’s financial district. This would have made tycoon Steven Wynn the owner of the most expensive painting, ever.<\/p>\n

Yet Wynn took the tear as a sign to not sell the painting, which was repaired and a new value was quoted for the painting — $85 million. Currently, Le Lecture of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter<\/em> is estimated to go for $12-17 million. Helen Newman, Shotheby’s chair of impressionist and modern art, remarked that the painting “will excite a lot of interest” inside of its market.<\/p>\n

Picasso’s mistress and muse was a secret affair depicted in the background of many of his past works. Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter once stated:<\/p>\n

“He simply took me by the arm and said: “I am Picasso! You and I are going to do great things together.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Picasso met Walter in 1927 as she was stepping off a train. The girl was only seventeen at the time, and the artist was aged forty-five years. She was kept to the background of his works, until the 1934 La Lecture<\/em> in which he depicts her intimately asleep with a book resting in her lap. Many scholars suggest this is a sexual symbol.<\/p>\n

Six other Picasso works will be featured in the auction, which will also include works by master artists Renoir<\/a>, Manet, Signac, and Monet<\/a>. If you can’t make it London next month, be sure to get your own hand painted reproduction of The Dream at overstockArt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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