Unicorn Art Club / All 30 artists
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973 · Cubism, Blue Period, Rose Period, Surrealism, Neoclassicism
The club deal
- Status
- Fundraising open
- Minimum per member
- USD 100,000 (US residents: USD 200,000 individuals, USD 1,000,000 entities)
- Fundraising target
- 10,000,000 USD
- Selection window
- 12 months, with return of the capital if no suitable work is found
- Vehicle
- a dedicated SPV for this artist
- Expected exit
- between 3 and 7 years, through auction or private sale
How the club deal for each artist works · Costs
If no suitable work is found within 12 months, the capital paid in is returned.
Price range of the works the club looks for
from 1,000,000 to 50,000,000 USD (1-50 million for major paintings and sculptures, over 100 million for masterpieces)
Market liquidity: high
Biography
Pablo Picasso, born in Málaga in 1881 and active mainly in France, co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque and reshaped painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics over a career of more than seventy years. His enormous output, estimated at tens of thousands of works, means he appears at auction more often than almost any other modern master, from prints and ceramics to museum-grade canvases. For the market he is the benchmark blue-chip name: his works hold the records for several categories, his portraits of muses such as Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar draw global bidding, and his 1955 Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) sold for about 179.4 million dollars in 2015, still his public auction record.
Auction record
179,365,000 USD: Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O), 1955, Christie's, New York, 2015-05-11 (source)
Recent auction results
- 42,600,000 USD: Arlequin (Buste), 1909, Sotheby's, New York, 2026-05-19 (source)
- 48,300,000 USD: Tête de femme (Fernande), bronze, Christie's, New York, 2026-05-18 (source)
- 40,800,000 USD: Homme à la guitare, 1913, Christie's, New York, 2026-05-18 (source)
- 45,400,000 USD: La Lecture (Marie-Thérèse), 1932, Christie's, New York, 2025-11-17 (source)
- 25,400,000 USD: Buste de femme, 1944, Christie's, Hong Kong, 2025-09-26 (source)
- 24,800,000 USD: La Statuaire, 1925, Sotheby's, New York, 2024-11-18 (source)
Market data: public auction results with date, auction house and source, the same data as Unicorn Art Watch.
Museums
- Musée national Picasso-Paris
- Museu Picasso, Barcellona
- Museo Picasso Málaga
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sources
- Wikipedia, List of most expensive paintings
- Wikipedia, Les Femmes d'Alger
- Wikipedia, Femme à la montre
- The Art Newspaper, Christie's Newhouse e 20th century, maggio 2026
- The Art Newspaper, Christie's 20th century, novembre 2025
- Sotheby's, New York spring season 2026 wrap-up
- The Art Newspaper, Sotheby's Modern evening sale maggio 2026
- The Value, Christie's Hong Kong autunno 2025
- The Art Newspaper, Christie's Hong Kong autunno 2025
- The Art Newspaper, Sotheby's Sydell Miller e Modern, novembre 2024
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