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Did the Absinthe Drinker Go to China?

June 29, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Colin Gleadell wonders aloud whether the woman bidding on the Picasso was an indicator of the ultimate buyer:

Picasso’s blue period portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, which could now be on its way to the Far East. It was bought for £34.8 million for an anonymous client by Jen Lyn Low, a Christie’s expert in Chinese works of art, recently seconded to the Impressionist department to develop its business relations in Asia.

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