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A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso stolen from the Paris museum bearing his name will be hard for thieves to sell, France's culture minister said Wednesday.
Pieces by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti sold Wednesday for more than $7 million each at an auction of impressionist and modern art, showing that collectors still are willing to spend despite the global recession, the Christie's auction house said.
Two famed early works by Pablo Picasso will stay in New York City museums after the institutions reached an out-of-court settlement over a lawsuit alleging the previous owner was forced by the Nazis to sell his artworks in the 1930s.
A painting by Pablo Picasso that was expected to fetch more than $30 million at auction next week has been withdrawn from sale, Sotheby's auction house said Tuesday.
When eccentric socialite and art dealer William M.V. Kingsland died two years ago, he left an extensive collection of Pablo Picasso paintings and other works crammed into his one-bedroom apartment — but no will.
Three armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from a Sao Paulo art museum on Thursday in a rapid strike in which the thieves bypassed more valuable works to grab the stolen pieces, police said.
Police say two Pablo Picasso etchings worth a combined $450,000 have been stolen from a gallery in Palm Beach.
A suspect in last month's brazen theft of two paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari told detectives the paintings were to be delivered to a Saudi collector, authorities said Friday.
Police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari worth millions of dollars stolen last month from Brazil's leading modern art museum and have two suspects in custody, officials said Tuesday.
Brazil's premier modern art museum had no insurance on paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari stolen in a brazen burglary, the museum's spokesman said on Saturday.
Armed with nothing more than a crow bar and a car jack, it took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari, worth millions of dollars, from Brazil's premier modern art museum.
A portrait by Pablo Picasso of the woman who influenced him in the late 1930s and early 1940s sold for $95.2 million, the second-highest amount ever paid for a painting at auction, the auction house Sotheby's said.
One of Pablo Picasso's daughters has questioned the authenticity of a drawing listed for sale on Costco Wholesale Corp.'s Web site, and for two others already sold over the past two years as works by the iconic Spanish cubist.
Ao On Site: Banks Violette's "Not Yet Titled" at Team Gallery New York, through June 20th, 2009 From May 7th until June 20th, Team Gallery presents new work by artist Banks Violette. Last night, a crowd -among which fellow artists Dash Snow and Matthew Barney- gathered at Team Gallery and Grand Street to take a first look at the work.
Ao On Site: Lisa Yuskavage Paintings On View At David Zwirner February 19th To March 28th, 2009 Lisa Yuskavage's second solo show with David Zwirner Gallery opened on February 19th in Chelsea, the first of three Zwirner openings over the next two weeks.
A Year in a Cage: A Life Shrunk to Expand ArtArt takes total commitment, but few artists maintain it around the clock. An exception is the Taiwanese-born performance artist Tehching Hsieh (pronounced dur-ching shay), specifically, the five, grueling one-year pieces he executed, mostly in New York, from 1978 to 1986.
Art Show Opens in N.Y. With Less Hedge-Fund Money for Picasso Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- At the Art Show last year, dealer Richard L. Feigen offered an $8.5 million Pablo Picasso still life. This year, he's highlighting less expensive art, including a $90,000 purple teapot painting by Georges Braque.
Louvre sets stage for "Funeral of Mona LisaPARIS (Reuters) - A giant, grey version of Mona Lisa with tears in her eyes and streaks of paint running down her front goes on display at the Louvre museum this week in the room next to the original by Leonardo da Vinci.
Raided Brazil museum 'uninsured'Officials at Brazil's top modern art museum where two prized paintings were stolen this week have admitted its collection is uninsured. The Sao Paulo Museum of Art also said there were major failures in the security system.
All Souls: The Art World: The Cult of KahloThere are so many ways to be interested in Frida Kahlo, who was born a hundred years ago and died forty-seven years later, in 1954, that simply to look at and judge her paintings, as paintings, may seem narrow-minded.
The question is posed with all due deference to the Renaissance, past masters, and critics who try to decipher meaningful information from self-distributed artists' statements.
Stolen Picassos found in ParisPolice have found two paintings and a drawing by Pablo Picasso stolen from his granddaughter's apartment in Paris in February.
Five decades on, Picasso's muse steps out as an artistPicasso only saw the shy 17-year-old girl, whose head was bowed with her hair high in a ponytail, for a few fleeting moments. But that was enough for him to become entranced by her beauty.
Pablo's punksIt's exactly a century since Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Jonathan Jones reveals why this explosion of sex, anarchy and violence gave birth to the whole of modern art
Art Rule No. 1: Don't Yell, 'My Kid Could Do That'Last May Sotheby's convened its grand evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art, part of a semiannual reunion and bazaar for the dealers, collectors, advisers and curators who traffic in the world's most expensive artworks.
Oops! Look what I''ve done! Steve Wynn to Keep Picasso He Damaged.Picasso''s famed Dream painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.
John Lennon and the Politics of Deportation, From Nixon to BushWith the soon-to-be-released documentary The US vs John Lennon recounting President Richard Nixons campaign to deport the mop-topped Beatle because of his anti-war activism, Lennon historian and film consultant Jon Wiener writes that President Bush has gone much farther than Nixo …
Olley donates 'birthday' Picasso to galleryArtist Margaret Olley has donated four works by artists like Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. One of the works is a 1945 lithograph by Picasso of his mistress, Francoise Gillot. Another is an iconic work by Cezanne, titled Large Bathers, whi …
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