Maya picasso girl with a boat
Maya picasso girl with a boat
Maya picasso girl with a boat movie.
Pablo Picasso's 'joyful' portrait of daughter sells for £18m at Sotheby's
A portrait Pablo Picasso made of his eldest daughter, Maya, in the late 1930s has sold for more than £18 million at auction.
The painting, Fillette au bateau, which translates to "girl on the boat," was originally estimated to sell for between £12m to £18m, but was bought for almost £18.1m at Sotheby's auction house in London on Wednesday.
Maya was born on 5 September 1935 in secrecy to Picasso's mistress and greatest love Marie-Thérèse Walter, while the artist was still married to his first wife, former ballerina Olga Khokhlova, according to the auction house.
Her birth was a source of happiness for the artist, who was going through what he later called "the worst period of his life", helping Picasso return to painting after an almost year-long hiatus.
Painted on 4 February 1938, the playful and bold portrait is one of 14 that Picasso made of Maya, his second child, between