Sotheby's will offer over 125 of Picasso's most celebrated works in private hands on November 3 in New York.
 Picasso was a master printmaker, continuing to make prints throughout his career |
The prints auction will provide a "comprehensive view" of Picasso's career, focusing on his etchings, linoleum cuts, sculptures, lithographs and ceramics.
The works hail from a single American collector, who assembled the career charting selection over several decades.
Estimates range from "a few thousand" to $400,000-600,000 - a valuation shared by "Portrait de Femme au Chapeau a Pompons et au Corsage Imprime" and "Portrait de Jeune Fille d'apres Cranach le Jeune", two renowned works.
Also holding the $400,000-600,000 estimate is a set of eight lithographs from 1949 that depict Francoise Gilot, one of Picasso's many lovers and muses, in varying states.
With Gilot pictured without hair, without a face and without colour, it offers the viewer a look at Picasso's methods of revising compositions.
 Picasso's ceramics and plates are highly prized by collectors |
Among the three dimensional works is a gold plate depicting Picasso's wife Jacqueline Roque entitled Jacqueline au Chevalet, which was created in 1956 and holds a $80,000-120,000 estimate. It shows his wife at an easel, reversing the couple's roles.
However, high-end collectors will be drawn to Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on November 4, in which Femme au Col de Forrure, a painting showing Picasso's "Golden Muse", Marie-Therese Walter, will be offered at $4m-6m.
 Picasso's depictions of his 'Golden Muse' are some of the most sought after, with the artist's happiness portrayed through his energy and use of bright colours |
The work was painted in 1937, two years after the birth of Picasso and Walter's daughter, Maya - a period in which Picasso's work flourished and is today hailed as one of his finest.
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