Picasso painting

Picasso painting - "Le Compotier", a work by artist Pablo Picasso and painted in Antibes in 1946, will be auctioned on Friday, October 18th at Christie's in Paris, on the sidelines of the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC). The work is an oil on paper mounted on canvas. According to the curator of the Picasso Museum, this is a painting "which is part of the small paintings that the Master has created in Antibes it’s estimated at between 600.000 and 900.000 euros.

 

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