9. Pablo Picasso – Nude, Green Leaves, And Bust
Considered amongst Picasso’s greatest post-war paintings, it sold at auction in New York in 2010 for £65.5 million. The painting was in the personal collection of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and Frances Brody for nearly six decades. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is one of a series of portraits that Picasso painted of his mistress and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter from 1932. Frances Brody died in November 2009, in May 2010, the painting was sold at Christie’s in New York City, who won the rights to auction the collection against London-based Sotheby’s. The collection as a whole was valued at over $150 million.