‘Women of Algiers’ is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish cubist artist Pablo Picasso. The series was inspired by Eugene Delacroix's 1834 painting ‘The Women of Algiers in their Apartment’.
‘Version O’, the final painting in the series, was painted in 1955.
Earlier, in May 2015, it was in the news. Why?
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Becomes the most expensive artwork ever to sell at an auction
It was auctioned at Christie's auction house selling for US$179,365,000. It was bought by the former Qatari prime minister, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani.