Picasso's Woman of Algiers Breaks Auction Record With $179.3M Sale

Pablo Picasso’s Woman of Algiers smashed auction records on May 11 after it sold for $179.3 million at Christie’s Looking Forward to the Past Evening Sale in New York. The previous record was held by Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud. The record for the most expensive sculpture ever sold was also set at the same auction when Alberto Giacometti’s Pointing Man sold for $141.3 million. Credit: Christie’s Images Ltd. 2013