Picasso artworks fetch more than $134 million at Las Vegas auction - ABC News

Eleven Picasso paintings and other works that helped turn Las Vegas into an unlikely destination for art have been sold at an auction for more than $US100 million ($134 million).

The highest price fetched was for the 1938 painting Femme au Beret Rouge-Orange, of Pablo Picasso's lover and muse Marie-Therese Walter, which sold for $US40.5 million ($54 million), some $US10 million ($13 million) over the high pre-sale estimate.

Smaller works on ceramic, like Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, which sold for $US2.1 million ($3 million), went for three or four times their pre-sale estimate.