Villa Notre-Dame-de-Vie, where the legendary artist Pablo Picasso died in 1973, will be sold for €164 million ($220 million). Luxury mansion is located in the French resort of Mougins (in the Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur), according to the portal ee24.com.
In this house, located between the beaches of the Côte d'Azur and the mountains of the French Alps, Picasso spent the last 12 years of his life. The current owner of the building — the art dealer from Belgium - carried out an extensive restoration and renovation of a villa of Notre-Dame-de-Vie, and then put it up for sale.
Property price tag makes you wonder as you'll have to pay $220 million (€164 million or 7.2 billion rubles) for a 35-bedroom villa with a couple of swimming pools, a tennis court, a flower garden, a guest cottage and a house for protection.
Experts call Picasso the most expensive artist of our time. In 2008 the volume of official sales of his works was $262 million (€196 million). And in 2010 Picasso's masterpiece "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" was sold for $106 million (€86.1 million).
ee24.com once wrote about Mougins - wonderful garden city, luring with its beauty and unique location on the French Riviera.