“The Boy with the Pipe” ( French: Garçon à la pipe ) - a picture painted at the Bateau Lavoir hostel in Montmartre by the 24-year-old artist Pablo Picasso in 1905 , in so-called. the pink period of his work. She depicts an unknown boy in a wreath of roses holding a pipe in his left hand.
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| Pablo Picasso | ||
| A boy with a pipe . 1905 | ||
| Garçon à la pipe | ||
| Oil on canvas . 100 × 81.3 cm | ||
| Private collection | ||
The portrait has long served as a “highlight” of the collection of the American collector J. Whitney . When the collection was sold in 2004, the “Boy with a pipe” was sold at Sotheby 's for a record price of $ 104 million at that time , breaking the record of “ Portrait of Dr. Gachet ” by Van Gogh for 15 years. This record lasted 6 years, until May 2010.