Editing Pablo Picasso (section)

=== Auction history ===
[[File:Garçon à la pipe.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|right|Pablo Picasso, 1905, ''[[Garçon à la pipe]], (Boy with a Pipe),'' private collection, [[Rose Period]]]]
Several paintings by Picasso rank among the [[list of most expensive paintings|most expensive paintings in the world]]. ''[[Garçon à la pipe]]'' sold for US$104&nbsp;million at [[Sotheby's]] on 4 May 2004. ''[[Dora Maar au Chat]]'' sold for US$95.2&nbsp;million at Sotheby's on 3 May 2006.<ref name="milli"/> On 4 May 2010, ''[[Nude, Green Leaves and Bust]]'' was sold at [[Christie's]] for US$106.5&nbsp;million. The 1932 work, which depicts Picasso's mistress [[Marie-Thérèse Walter]] reclining and as a bust, was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009.<ref name="nyti3"/> On 11 May 2015 his painting ''[[Les Femmes d'Alger|Women of Algiers]]'' set the record for the [[List of most expensive paintings|highest price ever paid for a painting]] when it sold for US$179.3&nbsp;million at Christie's in New York.<ref name="ibti"/>

On 21 June 2016, a painting by Pablo Picasso titled ''Femme Assise'' (1909) sold for £43.2&nbsp;million ($63.4&nbsp;million) at Sotheby's London, exceeding the estimate by nearly $20&nbsp;million, setting a world record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a Cubist work.<ref name="cnnco"/><ref name="sothe"/>

On 17 May 2017, ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' in an article titled "Picasso Work Stolen By Nazis Sells for $45 Million at Auction" reported the sale of a portrait painted by Picasso, the 1939 ''Femme assise, robe bleu'', which was previously misappropriated during the early years of WWII. The painting has changed hands several times since its recovery, most recently through auction in May 2017 at Christie's in New York City.<ref name="jpost"/>

In March 2018, his ''[[Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)|Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée]]'' (1937), a portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, sold for £49.8m at Sotheby's in London.<ref name="gaur71"/>