Picasso -Dora Maar au chat - info

1941 112 (95) Mio $

Picasso fell in love with the 29-year-old Maar at the age of

55 and soon began living with her. This painting was done

during the year 1941, when the Nazis were occupying

France.

The identity of the bidder, who spent more than US$

100 Mio, and purchased an 1883 Monet seascape and a

1978 Chagall in addition to the Picasso, was a topic of much

speculation. Apparently a novice bidder, though possibly

acting as an agent for a more well-known collector, the

anonymous buyer may have been unknown at the start of

the auction even to Sotheby's officials.[As of mid-2007, the

ownership of the Dora Maar au Chat is still unknown to the

general public, although rumors have focused on the

Georgian mining magnate and current Prime Minister of

Georgia Bidzina (Boris) Ivanishvili, who sold his Moscow

bank a week before the auction for $550 Mio.

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