On May 2010, the painting Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Picasso has been sold at Christie’s for over $106.5 million.
The 1932 work, which depicts Picasso’s mistress Marie-Therese Walter reclining and a bust was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009.
More than half a dozen bid on the canvas, which Brody acquired in the 1950s from Picasso’s dealers.
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
The Auspicious Incident and the End of the Janissaries
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The *Auspicious Incident* (*Vaka-i Hayriye*) refers to the dramatic
destruction of the Ottoman Janissary corps by Sultan Mahmud II on June 15,
1826. Thou...
