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Laurent Schwarz, affectionately dubbed the 'pint-sized Picasso,' has been making waves by selling his abstract paintings for around $7,000 each.
This is the second highest ever price paid for a Picasso painting, the highest being a painting called 'Les femmes d'Alger,' that was sold for over 179 million in 2015.
The 1932 painting, 'Woman with a Watch', features one of Pablo Picasso's companions and muses, the French painter Marie-Therese Walter.
A Pablo Picasso portrait of his mistress and "golden muse" Marie-Therese Walter sold for 28.6 million pounds (USD 45 million) on Tuesday, leading a patchy Sotheby's auction of impressionist, modern and surrealist art where some lots disappointed.
A 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso of his young lover and a pioneering 3-D Andy Warhol painting of the Statue of Liberty are expected to sell for at least USD 35 million each, but could fetch much more when they are auctioned next month.
Woody Allen delighted the critics at the start of the Cannes film festival on Wednesday with "Midnight In Paris", in which Owen Wilson travels back in time and meets the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.
The most expensive painting to be sold at auction, Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust", goes on public display in Britain for the first time on Monday at the Tate Modern gallery in London.