ok, so a Picasso portrait of his lover Dora Maar has been sold for $95.2m (?51.8m), the second highest amount ever paid for a painting at auction.

The 1941 masterpiece Dora Maar With Cat was sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday.

Sotheby's said Dora's "sculptural presence" and the "gorgeous palate of colours" made it worth so much. too bad picasso put so little effort into painting the cat.....i would have enjoyed seeing a picasso-fied feline......