To Each His Own

En Garde! Sotheby’s Sells Picasso Musketeeer Painting for $11.5 Million

Estimated at $8.9 million to $11.8 million, this Picasso was one of few masterpieces sold at or above market value this summer. Of the 44 works for sale on Tuesday at Christie's, 14 failed to sell, including works by Matisse, Schiele and even another Picasso.

Christie’s Sells Monet For $10.3 Million

The appetite for Impressionist paintings never seems to wane with Monet's “At Parc Monceau” selling well above the $6.8 million high estimate.

Miro’s “Painting (Woman Powdering Herself)” Grosses $6.4 Million

This 1949 canvas of poured, splashed and dripped colors filled with the artist’s sticklike figures sold for well over the high estimate of $4.2 million.

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to each his own

One has a right to one's personal preferences, as in I'd never pick that color, but to each his own. Versions of this maxim appeared in the late 1500s but the modern wording was first recorded in 1713.