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Women of Algiers painting sale price

Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insane

December 31, 2019May 13, 2015 by Editorial Team

The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artist

Categories Art Tags Art, Art and design, Article, Blogposts, Christie's record-breaking price 2015, Courbet Origin of the World, Culture, Delacroix Women of Algiers, French eroticism, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones on art, Main section, Musée Picasso in Paris, news, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Picasso Christie’s, Picasso record-breaking price 2015, Picasso Women of Algiers, Picasso world record at Christie’s, the greatest artist of the 20th century, The Guardian, Top stories, Women of Algiers painting sale price

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