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A Picasso up for auction at Christie’s

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Mar 18, 2010 16:46 Moscow Time
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The  Andrew Lloyd Webber foundation  is selling Picasso’s  "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker)," at Christie's auction house. The canvas is estimated at  GBP 40 million. Andrew Lloyd Webber purchased the painting for $29.2 million in 1995 . The canvas was for up for action in 2006 but was withdrawn at the last minute.

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