AUCTION PREMIERE: $304M Modern Evening Sale | The New York Sales | Sotheby's

Rare Mark Rothko Masterpiece Sets Off Bidding Battle | Sotheby's

Bidders made quick work over Picasso’s Cubist masterpiece, ‘Arlequin (Buste),’ in the Sotheby’s saleroom on Tuesday night. A highlight from The Collection of Adele & Enrico Donati, the painting achieved $42.6 million in The Modern Evening Auction, presented in partnership with CELINEtik. ‘Arlequin (Buste)’ is one of Picasso’s defining works, painted in 1909 as he began to develop his signature Cubist style. With this painting, he revolutionized the rules of not just portraiture, but of two-dimen