The Dream painted in 1932 by Pablo Picasso is the portrait of the painter's mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter .- 130 X 97 cm - Oil

Sold $ 48402500 to Steve Wynn for auction at Christie's in New York in 1997. The Las Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn who recently had to abandon the sale of the Picasso, having punched his elbow through it. The deal he had just concluded would have turned this painting info the most expensive in the world ever. The agreed price would be U.S. $ 139M. The record of the most expensive painting is the Gustav Klimt’s portrait by Adele Bloch-Bauer I for $ 135M US.The blog of  the Huffington Post tells that the incident occurred while Wynn was showing the canvas dating from 1932 to his guests in his office in Las Vegas. The American screenwriter Nora Ephron is said to have been the witness of the scene. According to the rumour the billionaire suffers from the pigmented retinopathy,  a degenerative disease of the retina that affects peripheral vision.