Sotheby's to offer a dreamy image of Picasso's golden muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter

Sotheby’s announced that Pablo Picasso’s stunning Le Repos from 1932 will highlight of their Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 14 May 2018. A stunning and intimate depiction of Picasso’s ‘golden muse’, Marie-Thérèse Walter, the work was painted at the apex of Picasso’s artistic production, and captures the rapturous desire of his greatest compositions. Le Repos is estimated to sell for $25/35 million when it is auctioned this May at Sotheby’s New York. The work will travel to Sotheby’s Hong Kong, London and Los Angeles galleries this spring, before returning to Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters for public exhibition beginning 4 May. The sumptuous canvas will appear at auction during a sensational time for related works from Picasso’s oeuvre: the Tate Modern’s first solo exhibition of Picasso’s work, The Ey Exhibition: Picasso 1932 — Love, Fame, Tragedy