Salvador Dalí’s largest known work, a sprawling stage set created in 1939 for the Surrealist ballet Bacchanale, is about to return to the market, and Bonhams seems confident that the piece will command real attention. The auction house has given it an estimate...
Tate's new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, "an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre". It is a 'gesture' to "bring out new relationships [between his works] and audiences". Thus, the exhibition is not about...
Last November's Sotheby's sale of 35 works from The Macklowe Collection was nothing less than historic, realising $676.1 million, the highest value single-owner auction ever staged. Its success is a homage to the art of collecting in its highest form. Now, this...
A painting donated to the Athens National Gallery by Pablo Picasso in 1949, stolen nine years ago has been recovered. Police in the Greek capital said, on Monday, Picasso's Woman's Head had been found along with a 1905 painting of a windmill by the Dutch artist Piet...
A new exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the contemporary Irish/American artist Sean Scully (b. 1945, Dublin) has opened in Picasso’s historic former studio at the Château de Boisgeloup. The door through. I am the door, the way, the entrance, the exit – Sean...
Masterpiece's inimitable strength is its ability to transcend the traditional pigeonholing of art into cultures” Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Chairman of Masterpiece. With friend, Paul Freud, we took a golf car at the entrance of Chelsea Bridge Road to drive to the 9th...
The first solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work ever to be held at Tate Modern was announced today, 30 January. Set to open in March 2018, Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy will be one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged. It will take...
“It must be quite clear to anyone looking at Dalí’s curtain and decor for ‘Mad Tristan’ that the celebrated Catalan illusionist does not design ballets – he allows dancers to take part in his paintings.” - Richard Buckle, Modern Ballet Design, London 1955 Salvador...
The New York Historical Society is to unveil Pablo Picasso's iconic painted theater curtain, commissioned for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Le Tricorne, in 1919. The masterpiece is the largest work by the Spanish born artist in America. It was donated by the...