Women of Algiers, Picasso painting becomes most expensive to be auctioned

Q.  Which painting of Picasso has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for 179.3 million dollar at Christie's in New York?
- Published on 14 May 15

a. Girl before a Mirror
b. The Weeping Woman
c. Woman of Algiers
d. Boy Leading a a Horse

ANSWER: Woman of Algiers
 
Picasso's 'Women of Algiers' has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for 179.3 million dollar at Christie's in New York. The previous world record for a painting sold at auction was 142.4 million dollar for British painter Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

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