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...Its top lots, however, were underwhelming, with the Picasso “Femme Assise Près d’une Fenêtre” considered a weak and, worse, unsexy example of the artist’s famed 1932 portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter....
...Then on Wednesday night at Christie’s, the Zurich-based Sandra Nedvetskaia, who looks after the firm’s Russian clients, bid patiently for a glacially slow client on the telephone....
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