Picasso's 'Femme la Montre' Painting Expected to Fetch $120 Million USD at Auction

Pablo Picasso's 1934 oil painting, Femme la montre, is expected to fetch around $120m USD when it hits auction this fall. Painted during the height of his iconoclastic career, Femme la montre is inspired by Picasso's longtime muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, a French model he had an affair with from 1927 to 1935. During that period, Picasso was still married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Russian-Ukranian dancer. He ultimately wasn't able to keep the secret of his affair, emblematic of Walter...