Picasso’s Sleeping Mistress, German Art Add $99 Million to London Auctions

A Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress Marie-Therese Walters and a collection of German art from 1960's to 1970's may add as much as 60 million pounds ($99 million) to London's June Art Auction.

Picasso's Canvas "June fille endormie", Showing Marie-Therese Walters snoozing on her folded arms, is estimated to fetch 9 million pounds at Christies International. The Group of 59 German contemporary works has an upper estimate of 47.5 million pounds at Southey's.

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