Finest Blue Period Picasso a huge draw

Des O’Sullivan says La Gommeuse is from the fabulous Koch collection.

The finest Blue Period Picasso to come to auction in a generation is one of a number of highlights of the big art selling season in New York, which is fast approaching.

La Gommeuse, Picasso’s erotically charged 1901 painting of a cabaret performer, is from the collection of Bill Koch, American entrepreneur, collector and America’s Cup winner.