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Picasso sells for $6.5M in Sydney

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Sydney -- Pablo Picasso's 1954 abstract painting

Sydney -- Pablo Picasso's 1954 abstract painting "Sylvette" was sold in Sydney for $6.5 million, setting a record for art sold at auction in Australia.

The BBC said the painting was of the artist's 17-year-old neighbor in Valories, France. She was the subject of 40 works created by Picasso, who died in 1973.

"Sylvette" was sold to an anonymous overseas phone bidder at the Deutscher-Menzies Galleries.

The previous record for highest price paid for a work of art in Australia was for a piece by

Australia's Brett Whiteley, which sold for about $3.3 million last year, the BBC said.

Rodney Menzies, the director of the gallery, bought "Sylvette" two years ago for about $4.4 million.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International.

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