Pablo Picasso's second entry on the list, Le Rêve portrays the Spanish Cubist's 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter - a work he is said to have completed in one afternoon. Purchased for the equivalent of $111,300 in 1941 by American business Victor Wendell Ganz, the 1932 oil painting was then sold at Christie's auction house in 1997, seemingly to Austrian-born investment-fund manager Wolfgang Flöttl, for the equivalent of $70.5million. He then sold the painting on to casino magnate Steve Wynn for a rumoured $80million in 2001. However, the painting - which is considered extremely erotic, due to the fact Picasso's erect penis allegedly makes up the top-half of Walter's face - was then bought privately by American hedge-fund manager Steven A Cohen for the equivalent of $156.5million (£104.6million) in March 2013. Quite a lot of money for a picture of a man's private parts, isn't it?
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