毕加索作于1909年夏天的“Femme assise，”是他的早期立体派油画 。当年毕加索和他的模特情人一同前往西班牙的一个小村庄奥尔塔爱布罗，在这个只能骑骡子进去的村庄，创作了这幅油画，如今拍卖售价为6370万美元，在伦敦苏富比拍卖会上，创下最高价格的立体派绘画拍卖记录。
“这是几十年以来的，这个立体画拍卖的最高记录价格，“Helena Newman，苏富比拍卖机构是印象派和现代艺术的一个全球联席总部，在一份声明中说，“几乎所有这一时期的重要作品都是在国际博物馆和机构。”
这幅画，画中是毕加索的模特情人Fernande Olivier，前面一次拍卖是在1973年在伦敦苏富比拍卖会上拍卖过，当年售出价格大约相当于现在的50万美元。这个作品是一个叫Adam Chinn的电话公司合伙人拍下，他是和部分艺术机构的合伙人，以及一个艺术顾问的公司共同拍得的。这家艺术顾问公司最近被苏富比拍卖行收购。
毕加索（Picasso）的作品最高拍卖记录是1955年创作的“les femmes d'alger（版本“O”）”的。 在佳士得拍卖行拍出1亿7940万美元。
第二高价位拍出的作品是由阿梅代奥·莫迪里阿尼创作的肖像，“珍妮Hébuterne（au Foulard）”以5670万美元价格成交。莫迪利亚尼画的一个斜躺的裸体女孩 以1亿7040万美元在佳士得成交。
Picasso’s “Femme Assise,” painted in the summer of 1909 — when the artist traveled to the remote Spanish village of Horta de Ebro, which could only be reached by mule — sold for $63.7 million at Sotheby’s in London on Tuesday, making it the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.
“It has been decades since a Cubist painting of this caliber has been offered at auction,” Helena Newman, a global co-head of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby’s, said in a statement. “Virtually all the significant works of this period are in international museums and institutions.”
The painting, which depicts Picasso’s lover and model Fernande Olivier, was last sold at auction in 1973 at Sotheby’s in London for about $500,000 in today’s dollars. The work was bought on behalf of a telephone bidder by Adam Chinn, part of Art Agency, Partners, an art advisory company that was recently acquired by Sotheby's.
The overall record for a Picasso was set last year with the sale of the 1955 painting “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)” for $179.4 million at Christie’s.
The second-highest-priced work sold on Tuesday was a portrait by Amedeo Modigliani, “Jeanne Hébuterne (au Foulard),” which sold for $56.7 million. A Modigliani painting of a reclining nude sold for $170.4 million last year at Christie’s.
