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“La Gommeuse” is a portrait of Picasso’s Catalan anarchist friend and dealer Pere Mañach which was discovered during conservation arranged by Mr. Koch in 2000. Hidden under lining for a century, the “whimsical and wicked rendering depicts the dealer wearing an exotic headdress, with his head on a female body in a dancer’s leap,” according to Sotheby’s