Picasso: most expensive painting ever sold at auction to go on display at Tate Modern in London - Telegraph: "The 1932 painting, which sold at Christie's in New York last May for a world record price of $106.5 million (£65.5 million), will be displayed from Monday morning at the Tate Modern on London's South Bank.Tate director Nicholas Serota said: ''This is an outstanding painting by Picasso and I am delighted that through the generosity of the lender we are able to bring it to the British public for the first time.
''Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is one of the sequence of paintings of Picasso's muse
, Marie-Therese Walter, made by the artist at Boisgeloup, Normandy, in the early months of 1932. They are widely regarded as amongst his greatest achievements of the inter-war period.''The painting, which has been lent to the gallery by a private collector, will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream wing on Level 3 of the building.
The Spanish-born Pablo Picasso first met Marie-Therese Walter in 1927 but kept their relationship a secret from his wife and only began to paint her four years later.
An exhibition exploring the links between Picasso and the UK will open at Tate Britain next year."
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