Here we are with Picasso yet again, with the work Garçon à la pipe as the first painting to break the $100 million barrier. The work sold for £68.3 million or $104 million. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France. The oil on canvas work depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers. The strange thing is that it was never made public as to who expressed such an interest in Picasso’s portrait of a smoking Parisian.
