What is the title of Picasso's painting that sold for $104 million in 2004?

What is the title of Picasso’s painting that sold for $104 million in 2004? The answer is “Garçon à la pipe.”

Picasso painted “Garçon à la pipe,” or “Boy with a Pipe,” in 1905, soon after settling in Paris’s Montmartre district. The work belongs to his Rose Period, when performers, acrobats and other figures replaced much of the melancholy emphasis associated with his earlier Blue Period.

The painting shows a young boy in blue clothing holding a pipe and wearing a garland of flowers. Its sale at Sotheby’s in New York in May 2004 attracted worldwide attention: the final price, including the buyer’s premium, was about $104.2 million. The hammer price itself was lower, approximately $93 million.

Readers often confuse this sale with other major Picasso auction records. “Dora Maar au Chat” sold for $95.2 million in 2006, while “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” reached $106.5 million in 2010. “Garçon à la pipe” was notable for becoming the first painting sold at auction for more than $100 million.