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4 days ago · Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. Among his best-known works are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1909) and Guernica (1937).
- Picasso is thought to have made about 50,000 artworks during his lifetime, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and ceramics. From his...
- For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to the whole development of modern...
- The value of Picasso’s art has never faltered: the artist was able to sell works at high prices during his lifetime, and since his death in 1973 hi...
- Pablo Picasso was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a professor of drawing, and Maria Picasso López. His father recognized the boy’s talent at a young a...
- In typical Andalusian fashion, Picasso was baptized with a long string of names (but sources vary on the order): Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paul...
4 days ago · He began writing poetry in 1935, and during one year, from February 1935 to the spring of 1936, Picasso virtually gave up painting. Collections of poems were published in Cahiers d’Art (1935) and in La Gaceta de Arte (1936, Tenerife), and some years later he wrote the Surrealist play Le Désir attrapé par la queue (1941; Desire Caught by the ...
4 days ago · He transformed paper cutouts into monumental sculptures, and in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film Le Mystère Picasso (1956), the artist, the sole star, behaves like a conjurer, performing tricks with his brush.
5 days ago · The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania has come clean: The Picasso paintings hanging in its women’s restroom were forged by one of its own curators.
3 days ago · In Picasso’s ‘Sylvette’ series, the ‘girl with the ponytail’ is an enigmatic presence in more than 40 of the artist’s drawings, sculptures and paintings. For French artist, former model and Picasso’s only living muse, Sylvette David (now Lydia Corbett), the immortalisation marked a positive, fruitful and creative period. ‘It was ...
4 days ago · 1 of 2 | . In this undated photo provided by the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Kirsha Kaechele poses with a painting in Hobart, Australia. Kaechele has divulged on July 9, 2024, that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso -- and which prompted a gender discrimination case in Tasmania when she only permitted women gallery patrons to view them.
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4 days ago · The most expensive Picasso painting ever sold at auction is Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’), painted in 1955, which was bought for $179 million at Christie’s in 2015.
