"On Tuesday, Sotheby's will ask at least $25 million for Picasso's 1934 "Women Reading," a rainbow-hued portrait of the mistress he painted in that record-setting "Nude.""
"Her recent works – rainbow-hued figures crafted from modelling material – have moved further into an imagined alternative realm."
"Sotheby's kicked off a two-week series of major art auctions in New York on Tuesday by selling Pablo Picasso's rainbow-hued double portrait, "Women Reading," for $21.3 million."