A "blue period" Picasso has fetched £34.7m at auction in London.
The 1903 painting, Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, was expected to fetch between £30m and £40m at the sale where total receipts could reach £230m.
That would smash a £147m UK record set by Sotheby's in London in February.
A Monet water-lily painting expected to fetch between £30m and £40m failed to sell at the Christie's event, which also featured works by Magritte and Van Gogh.
