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During 2005 and 2006, ''Dora Maar au Chat'', then owned by the [[Gerald Gidwitz|Gidwitz family]] of Chicago, was shown worldwide as part of [[Sotheby's]] exhibitions in [[London]], [[Hong Kong]] and [[New York City|New York]]. It came up for sale in an [[auction]] of [[Impressionist]]/Modern works held at Sotheby's on May 3, 2006 in New York and making it the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. An anonymous Russian[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19263980/site/newsweek/] bidder present at the New York auction won the work with a final bid of [[U.S. dollar|US$]]95,216,000, well exceeding the pre-auction US$50 million estimates.<ref>[http://www.news-antique.com/?id=781416 "Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar brings $95,216,000 at Sotheby's"], News-Antique.com, May 4, 2006.</ref>
The identity of the bidder, who spent more than US$100 million in total, and purchased an 1883 [[Claude Monet|Monet]] seascape and a 1978 [[Marc Chagall|Chagall]] in addition to the Picasso, was a topic of much speculation. Apparently a novice bidder, though possibly acting as an agent for a more well-known collector, the anonymous buyer may have been unknown at the start of the auction even to Sotheby's officials.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/arts/design/06buye.html?ex=1304568000&en=8f4e637fd6f73618&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "Recognize This Man? The Art World Doesn't"], Carol Vogel, ''New York Times'', May 6, 2006.</ref> As of mid-2007, the ownership of the ''Dora Maar au Chat'' is still unknown to the general public, although rumors have focused on the Georgian mining magnate [[Boris Ivanishvili|Bidzina (Boris) Ivanishvili]], who sold his Moscow bank a week before the auction for $550 m <ref>[http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/19387/index3.html The Hunt for the Red Collector], Marc Spiegler, ''New York Magazine'', Aug 26, 2006 </ref> <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/09/03/svrussian03.xml Who is the mystery buyer of the $95m Picasso?], ''Telegraph'', Sept 3 2006.</ref>. He resides at a large house built into a rock bluff in his native [[Republic of Georgia]].[http://www.inopressa.ru/independent/2006/05/29/16:30:07/oligarhi]
== Descriptions of painting ==
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