Naked muses who were worth millions in sale

1. NAKED MUSES WHO WERE
WORTH MILLIONS IN SALE
While the lady seen in Amedeo
Modigliani's recent megaseller `Nu couché'
remains unidentified, here's looking at
women behind other famous nudes

2. Contd...
• Les femmes d'Alger (Version “O“)' Pablo
PicassoFetched $179.4 million in July 2015 The
famous work, painted in 1955, was Picasso's
homage to his friend and competitor, Henri
Matisse, and his own take on 19th century French
master Eugene Delacroix's `Les femmes d'Alger'.
The painting features unidentified women,
believed to be of Turkish antecedent in, possibly,
a harem. The story goes that Delacroix may have
been permitted by the women's husband to enter
his harem and sketch them.

3. Contd...
• Birth' Francis Newton Souza
• Fetched $4 million in September 2015 The
most expensive Indian painting to be sold at
an auction, this portrays a woman about to
give birth. Souza, who often painted nudes,
reportedly based this on his pregnant partner
Lisette, who bore three of his children.

4. Contd...
• `Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' Pablo Picasso
• Fetched $106.5 million in May 2010
• The 1932 masterpiece captures one of Picasso's
many lovers, MarieThérèse Walter, in a reclining
pose. It is part of a series he did on Walter whom
he met in 1927 when she was 17, almost 29 years
younger than him. At the time he was still
married to wife Olga Khokhlova. However, Picasso
and Walter fell in love and had a daughter from
their relationship.

5. Contd...
• `Portrait of Henrietta Moraes', Francis Bacon
• Fetched $47.8 million in May 2015
• Moraes, depicted in this sexually suggestive portrait
with her legs spread and one hand over her breast, was
a muse to many British artists including Bacon. The
artist, who was a homosexual, was fascinated by
female influences and paid photographer John Deakin
to have a series of pictures of Moraes taken, one of
which served as the inspiration for this painting.
Moraes was married to Indian writer and poet Dom
Moraes .

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