Paris - A celebrated Pablo Picasso painting called The Weeping Woman, from the collection of his former mistress Dora Maar, sold at auction here for 37 million francs ($6.64 million). The 1937 oil painting, which had been estimated at between $2.9 and $3.6 million dollars, was painted in the wake of the Guernica series inspired by the horror of the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso's Dora Maar on the Beach meanwhile sold for 11.5 million francs at auction here on Tuesday.
The paintings are part of a little-known collection of Picasso works amassed by Maar, who died last year, and which went on sale in what is being viewed as one of the art market's events of the decade.