A billionaire Qatari sheikh dubbed1 "the man who bought London" was reportedly the anonymous2 bidder3 who snapped up a Pablo Picasso masterpiece that smashed the world auction4 sale record.
一个被冠以“能买下伦敦的人”称号的亿万富翁卡塔尔酋长是拍下巴勃罗·毕加索名画的神秘买主，这次交易创下了世界拍卖行的新记录。
There has been intense
speculation5 about the identity of the buyer who placed the winning $179.4 million telephone bid for Les Femmes d'Alger at Christie's in Manhattan earlier this month.
Art world sources have now told the New York Postthat the painting was acquired by Hamad
bin6 Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former Qatari prime minister.
Qatar's ruling Al Thani
clan7 has been pursuing an international artwork buying spree as it aims to turn the small energy-rich emirate into a global cultural power ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
But Les Femmes d'Alger may never be displayed publicly in Qatar to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities because it
depicts8 women's breasts, even though they were painted in the artist's highly stylised cubist form.
It could instead remain at one of the sheikh's multi-million pound homes in London or New York, the newspaper reported.
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