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Garçon à la Pipe

• Sculpture sells for record $104.3 million

Pablo Picasso's painting of a Parisian boy smoking a pipe was bought by an anonymous bidder in 1994 for $104.1 million at an auction in New York. At the time, it was the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction and far exceeded the expected price of $70 million.

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Last updated February 04 2010: 2:08 PM ET

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