<p>After a Pablo Picasso painting sells for $103.4 million (85 million euros) in New York, we look at the Spanish artist's five most expensive works ever sold at auction, according to an <em>AFP</em> database.</p>.<p>This ranking does not include private sales, the amounts of which are rarely revealed.</p>.<p>Sold for $179.4 million at Christie's in New York in 2015 this painting held the world record for the highest ever price at auction before being dethroned by <em>Salvator Mundi</em>, which is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.</p>.<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/picassos-woman-sitting-near-a-window-sells-for-103-million-in-new-york-985722.html" target="_blank">Picasso's 'Woman Sitting Near a Window' sells for $103 million in New York </a></strong></p>.<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly paid $450.3 million for the Renaissance masterpiece in 2017.</p>.<p><em>The Women of Algiers (Version O) </em>was painted in 1955. It had already gone under the hammer in 1997 for $31.9 million.</p>.<p>This 1905 painting was one of the stars of the 2018 auction of the works collected by the late US banker David Rockefeller and his wife Peggy. It represents a young girl nude holding a basket of flowers.</p>.<p>The world record holder until <em>Women of Algiers</em> went under the hammer, this canvas of Picasso's young reclining lover Marie-Therese Walter -- whose French title is the more evocative <em>Nude on the Sculptor's Tray </em>-- was painted in 1932. It went for $106.5 million and is currently on loan at the Tate Modern art gallery in London.</p>.<p>Another from Picasso's<em> Rose Period</em> in 1905, he painted it shortly after he had moved to Paris and had settled in Montmartre. Another world record holder when it sold for $104.2 million in New York in 2004, owner John Hay Whitney -- whose family endowed Manhattan's Whitney Museum -- had bought it in 1950 for $30.000.</p>.<p>Another painting of his lover Marie-Therese, it sold Thursday for $103.4 million at Christie's in New York, more than twice the £28.6 million ($45 million) it made when it was sold in London eight years ago.</p>
<p>After a Pablo Picasso painting sells for $103.4 million (85 million euros) in New York, we look at the Spanish artist's five most expensive works ever sold at auction, according to an <em>AFP</em> database.</p>.<p>This ranking does not include private sales, the amounts of which are rarely revealed.</p>.<p>Sold for $179.4 million at Christie's in New York in 2015 this painting held the world record for the highest ever price at auction before being dethroned by <em>Salvator Mundi</em>, which is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.</p>.<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/picassos-woman-sitting-near-a-window-sells-for-103-million-in-new-york-985722.html" target="_blank">Picasso's 'Woman Sitting Near a Window' sells for $103 million in New York </a></strong></p>.<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly paid $450.3 million for the Renaissance masterpiece in 2017.</p>.<p><em>The Women of Algiers (Version O) </em>was painted in 1955. It had already gone under the hammer in 1997 for $31.9 million.</p>.<p>This 1905 painting was one of the stars of the 2018 auction of the works collected by the late US banker David Rockefeller and his wife Peggy. It represents a young girl nude holding a basket of flowers.</p>.<p>The world record holder until <em>Women of Algiers</em> went under the hammer, this canvas of Picasso's young reclining lover Marie-Therese Walter -- whose French title is the more evocative <em>Nude on the Sculptor's Tray </em>-- was painted in 1932. It went for $106.5 million and is currently on loan at the Tate Modern art gallery in London.</p>.<p>Another from Picasso's<em> Rose Period</em> in 1905, he painted it shortly after he had moved to Paris and had settled in Montmartre. Another world record holder when it sold for $104.2 million in New York in 2004, owner John Hay Whitney -- whose family endowed Manhattan's Whitney Museum -- had bought it in 1950 for $30.000.</p>.<p>Another painting of his lover Marie-Therese, it sold Thursday for $103.4 million at Christie's in New York, more than twice the £28.6 million ($45 million) it made when it was sold in London eight years ago.</p>