(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 24 - Eleven works by Pablo Picasso that decorated the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, were sold at the auction at Sotheby's for a total final price of 110 million dollars, equal to over 94.4 million euros, in the same city as casinos.
They are - writes the BBC - nine paintings and two ceramic sculptures, which include fifty years of activity of the great Spanish artist.
Among the paintings, the famous "Woman with a red-orange cap" of 1938, which portrays the muse and lover of Picasso at the time, Marie-Thérèse Walter, collected the highest price, 40.5 million dollars (34.7 million of Euro).
Another painting, "Man and Child" from 1959, sold for $ 24.4 million.
Among the other masterpieces that adorned the PicassoRestaurant at the Bellagio, now owned by MGM Resorts, there was also "Still life with a basket of fruit and flowers" painted in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Paris, sold for 16.6 million dollars.
Picasso's collection of works, comprising 20 works in total, was acquired by the former owner of the luxurious hotel-casino, Steve Wynn.
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