PEOPLE: Picasso’s Femme Écrivant sells for €39,570,000

Picasso’s Femme Ecrivant (Woman Writing) has sold at auction in London for €39,570,000 (C$58,741,665). It is a portrait of his dearest love, a woman of 17 who he met when he was 45 in the early 1930s. It was painted in 1934. The work has never been at auction before. Picasso held onto it until 1961 and finally sold it to a private owner whose estate put it up for auction. To the right, that’s an ISIS bullet hitting the wall beside a Kurdish woman sniper as she and her comrades close in on what’s left of the blood-thirsty mob at the City of Raqqa. They say she laughed and maybe that’s all anyone could do. Lastly, WWII Luftwaffe ace Hugo Broch, 95, got to meet the enemy close up Wednesday as air enthusiasts in Kent, England gave him a ride in a Spitfire.