Who painted 'Women of Algiers', sold at auction for a record $160m in 2015?
Art auction Gogh’s "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" sold for $82.5 million. In November 2013, $142.4 million was paid for the 1969 triptych, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud", by Francis Bacon. The highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction was Pablo Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O)" (Women of Algiers) that was sold by Christie's in May 2015 for $179.4 million. Sotheby's and Christie's has become major dealers of Chinese porcelain antiques. As of 2016, some of the best collections had been auctioned for tens of millions US Dollars, through Sotheby's and Christie's. In the 21st Century, and especially since 2010,
Women of Algiers Women of Algiers Women of Algiers in their Apartment () is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. Delacroix's first version of "Women of Algiers" was painted in Paris in 1834 and is located in the Louvre, Paris, France. The second work, painted fifteen years later between 1847 and 1849, is located at the Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France. The two works both depict the same scene of four women together in an enclosed room. Despite the similar setting, the two paintings evoke completely different moods through the depiction of the women. Delacroix's