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Picasso’s Claude & Paloma Sells to China’s Top Billionaire

November 5, 2013 by Marion Maneker

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Bloomberg is reporting identity of one of last night’s buyers at the Jan Krugier sale:

China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, bought Picasso’s painting of his young children, Claude and Paloma, for $28.2 million at Christie’s in New York yesterday, the auction house said.

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