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Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust: most expensive painting ever sold at auction to go on display in London

The most expensive painting ever sold at auction, Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, is going on display show in the UK for the first time.

The 1932 painting, which sold at Christie's in New York last May for a world record price of $106.5 million (£65.5 million), will be displayed from Monday morning at the Tate Modern on London's South Bank.

The painting, which has been lent to the gallery by a private collector, will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream wing on Level 3 of the building....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)