Rare Images of Hitler's Wife Eva Braun

Rare Images of Hitler's Wife Eva Braun

Eva Braun made up as jazz singer Al Jolson
Braun sunbathing and semi-nude behind umbrella
Hitler's long-time companion seen partying and smoking

Previously unseen images from the fascinating private albums of Eva Braun have come to light.

They give us incredible retrospective access to Hitler’s little known companion and her extraordinary life.

Hitler and Braun were married on April 29, 1945, but within some 40 hours they were both dead.
Against the backdrop of the final days of the war in Europe and the crumbling Reich it was an extraordinary marriage.

Eva Braun was the longtime companion, and for a brief time wife, of Adolf Hitler.

He met her in Munich when she was 17 years old and working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann.

Sotheby's Sells Picasso Portrait for $40 Million

Pablo Picasso's "La Lecture," the portrait that revealed his teenaged mistress to the world, sold for more than $40 million, said Sotheby's.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A painting by Pablo Picasso, the first work of art in which he portrayed his teenage lover, sold for more than $40 million in London, according to Sotheby's auction house.

An anonymous buyer on Tuesday paid about $40.7 million for "La Lecture," painted in 1932, said Sotheby's. A "heated" exchange among seven bidders lasted six minutes, with the winning bid placed by telephone, the auctioneer said.The painting is the first recognizable portrait of Picasso's lover, Marie-Therese Walter, who was 17 years old at the start of their relationship. Prior to this painting, she had "only ever appeared in Picasso's works in code, her features often embedded in the background of his paintings," according to Sotheby's.