Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1932. It was a record breaking when it was sold at a Christie’s auction for $106.5 million in May 2010.
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust created on a single day. It is one of sequence of works showing the artist’s then love, his muse and mistress Marie-Theresa Walter.
Marie-Theresa Walter, a young woman whom Spanish born Pablo Picasso first encountered in 1927 when she was 17. He kept their relations secret form his wife and only began to paint her four years later.
Marie-Theresa committed suicide in 1977, four years after Picasso’s death at the age of 91.
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
