Art lover Sir Sean Connery's Picasso painting could sell for £15 million

A Picasso painting from the late Sir Sean Connery’s collection is expected to sell for up to $19 US dollars at auction next month.
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The painting, Buste D’homme Dans Un Cadre – Bust Of A Man In A Frame – will be sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong next month.

The Bond actor’s stepson, Stephane Connery, an art adviser, described the 1969 work as “unbelievably colourful and extremely powerful” .

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He added: “It is about the best late Picasso I have ever seen.”

Buste D’homme Dans Un Cadre – Bust Of A Man In A Frame – will be sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong next month
Pic: Christie'sBuste D’homme Dans Un Cadre – Bust Of A Man In A Frame – will be sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong next month
Pic: Christie's
Buste D’homme Dans Un Cadre – Bust Of A Man In A Frame – will be sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong next month Pic: Christie's

Proceeds from the sale will support Scottish charitable organisations Sir Sean cared about.

Stephane said: “We – his family – are now working to create a fund that will offer support to organisations that reflect Sean’s interests and passions, and serve to keep his legacy of integrity, opportunity and effectiveness alive.

“These efforts will be focused in Scotland, where Sean was born, and the Bahamas, where he lived for more than 30 years and adored like his homeland.”

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Stephane said his Edinburgh-born father bought the painting after visiting museums.

The Oscar-winning actor, who died in 2020, married Micheline Roquebrune, an internationally exhibited painter, in 1975, and began to fully appreciate works of art.

In later life, he started visiting museums and built-up an impressive collection of paintings.

Adrien Meyer, co-chairman of impressionist and modern art at Christie’s said: “It is no wonder that a titan of the film industry was drawn to this tour de force by the greatest modern art titan of all.

“Appearing at auction for the first time, this is simply one of the best works by the artist of his late period to ever come to market.”

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