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1.A Pablo Picasso painting depicting his young lover Marie-Therese Walter has sold for 25.2 million pounds ($40.7 million) at a London auction.
Sotheby's says the 1932 painting, called "La Lecture," was bought by an anonymous buyer over the phone after some six minutes of heated contest among bidders.
The painting was expected to fetch up to 18 million pounds ($28.9 million). The picture's selling price Tuesday included a premium of 2.7 million pounds ($4.3 million).
It shows Walter, Picasso's mistress and model for several paintings, asleep in an armchair.
Walter was 17 when she met Picasso, and she later had a daughter, Maya, with the artist.

2. A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist's estate said Monday.

The electrician, who once worked for Picasso, and his wife for years squirreled away the staggering trove which is believed to be authentic inside a trunk in the garage of their home on the French Riviera.

3. Picasso is set to make a splash in Hong Kong this autumn, with not one, but three sales in the city.
Two of the city's top galleries and auctioneer Sotheby's are hosting exhibitions of the Spanish artist's work that will also offer fans the chance to buy pieces from across Picasso's career.
Gallery owner Ben Brown says that while the market for Picassos in Asia is small right now, he is optimistic that it is set to grow. The Hong Kong branch of Mr. Brown's eponymous London-based gallery will hold a Picasso sale and show from the middle of November to Chinese New Year. "I'd be pleasantly surprised if I sold anything from my show to an Asian buyer, though it's an opportunity to educate people about Picasso, to see his paintings in person," says Mr. Brown. He plans to offer about 15 Picasso paintings for sale in Hong Kong, priced from $2 million to $15 million. They will mostly be works from the 1960s and 70s.
"The type of people who can afford a Picasso, (many) of them come through Hong Kong at least once a year, so Hong Kong is a good catchment (area)," Mr. Brown says.
There are only a handful of serious collectors of Picasso paintings in Asia, primarily in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, according to art-market experts in the region. However, many dealers say they believe China in particular is emerging as an important market for a wide range of blue-chip Western art.
Mr. Brown's exhibition will follow closely on the heels of a Picasso event at Edouard Malingue's new, 150-square-meter Rem Koolhaas-designed space in the heart of Hong Kong's financial district. Since Sept. 27, the Malingue gallery has housed an all-Picasso show, which runs to Dec. 4. Works on display include a watercolor study for "Deux Femmes Nues"—the painting itself, created in 1906-07, hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York—and a 1962 portrait of the last Mrs. Picasso, Jacqueline Roque.
Hong Kong's run of Picasso-themed events is rounded out by Sotheby's. The auction house has announced a late November exhibition and sale of works by Impressionist and Modern painters, ranging in price from $2 million to $25 million. The sale will include pieces by Renoir, Chagall, Degas and Monet, though seven works by Picasso are expected to steal the spotlight. The star of the exhibition is "Jeune Fille aux Cheveux Noirs (Dora Maar)," a 1939 portrait of the artist's lover, Dora Maar.