A post with a Pablo Picasso drawing was sold today for 166,000 euros at an auction in Germany, announced the auctioneer responsible for the sale.
The amount by which was sold is “a world record by a postcard, “assured Gärtner auction house, based near Stuttgart (Southern Germany), in a statement released today and quoted by Agence France Presse.
The buyer, a ‘collector across the Atlantic “, made the purchase by telephone. The tender, hard fought, was based on one hundred thousand euros.
With commissions, the buyer will end up paying more than 200,000 euros by postcard.
The Post, with a aerial view of Pau (south of France), was sent to September 5, 1918 by Picasso to his friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Instead of writing in the mail back, Picasso drew a picture “that can be included in their Cubist phase ‘A Still Life’,” said the Gärtner.
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