Damien Hirst Exhibits His Work Alongside Picasso, Bacon and Warhol
Damien Hirst is a Turner Prize winning artist. Despite his critical notoriety (much of it negative) he has managed to… Read More
30 November 2013
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Gurlitt Case Reveals Photos of Picasso, Munch, Degas and Cezanne Masterpieces
The German tax authorities who seized an art collection worth $100m have published a further 100 works of art online… Read More
29 November 2013
Hitler’s Joseph Goebbels Sold Degenerate Art Trove Found In Munich
It has now been revealed that Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels sold 200 masterpieces to the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt… Read More
12 November 2013
Sotheby’s Achieves Second Highest Results For Impressionist and Modern Sale
An Impressionist and Modern art sale at Sotheby’s in New York has raised more than $290m (£180m) This is the… Read More
7 November 2013
Leonard Lauder Donates $1 Billion Cubism Collection To Metropolitan Museum
An A-list collection of Cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque and Leger has been gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of art… Read More
10 April 2013
Picasso Blue Period Masterpiece To Be Exported To Qatar
One of the most iconic Picasso ‘Blue Period’ paintings which has been in Britain for over 85 years is about… Read More
11 March 2013
Richard Prince Deconstructs An Iconic Aura With New Paintings
A new exhibition of paintings by Richard Prince, his first exhibition in London since his ‘Continuation’ retrospective at the Serpentine… Read More
23 January 2013
PAD London Reports Strong Sales For 2012 Fair – Review
PAD London has reported a resounding success for its 6th edition. The fair has been highly regarded as ‘The Best’… Read More
16 October 2012
Picasso Export Ban Last Chance To Save Priceless Masterpiece
An Important 1901 Blue Period Picasso painting has had a temporary export ban slapped on it, in an attempt to… Read More
17 August 2012
Damien Hirst’s Unfunny Stone Roses Quip
Damien Hirst said yesterday, ‘The Stone Roses are more important than Picasso.’ Would Picasso have said that Frank Sinatra was… Read More
28 June 2012
£54m Mark Rothko Breaks Contemporary Art Auction Record
Before last night the price of $86.3 million, paid for Francis Bacon’s ‘Triptych’, 1976, in 2008 was the most expensive… Read More
9 May 2012
Munch’s Scream Tops May Art Market Bill
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is aiming to be the biggest seller in New York during May’s upcoming auctions.
2 May 2012
Picasso Examined Through Eyes Of His Young Lover At Gagosian
Gagosian Gallery is to present ‘Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris 1943-1953,’ the fourth major exhibition in an ongoing series on… Read More
1 May 2012
Happy Birthday Picasso’s Patron & Gertrude Stein’s Lover Alice Toklas
Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967) is best remembered as the pseudo-subject of Gertrude Stein’s memoirs, but this American woman was an… Read More
30 April 2012
Fisk University To Sell Major Art Collection To Survive
Fisk University has finally got permission to sell its Stieglitz collection which trustees believe is a necessary action for the… Read More
24 April 2012
Gwyneth Paltrow Depicts Dora Maar In Picasso Biopic
Gwyneth Paltrow has accepted the role of Picasso’s muse in a new biopic about the turbulent and unstable relationship between… Read More
30 March 2012
Art Dealer Sought in £3m Art Fraud
Picasso Matisse and Klee works Defrauded By Cook Fine Art In New York A Madison Avenue art dealer has been… Read More
27 January 2012
Spanish Line At Courtauld More Siesta Than Fiesta
‘The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso’ seeks to rehabilitate a much-maligned and ill-defined school of draughtsmanship, but ultimately… Read More
3 December 2011
Banker Brings Picasso To British Museum
British Museum acquires UK’s first complete Picasso set with aid of banker donation The British Museum has secured an exciting… Read More
30 November 2011
Picasso Beyond The Ballets Russes
The English National Ballet and Tate Britain premiere Three New Ballets A new collaboration between The English National Ballet and… Read More
27 October 2011
Picasso Exhibition Explores Influence On British Modernism
PICASSO AND MODERN BRITISH ART At Tate Britain from February 2012 A new exhibition titled, “Picasso and Britain” will be… Read More
9 October 2011
Ayala Zacks-Abramov Canada’s Peggy Guggenheim Dies Aged 97
Ayala Zacks-Abramov, the well known Canadian/Israeli collector passed away on Sunday age of 97. Zacks-Abramov was a serious collector
31 August 2011
Tony Curtis Estate To Be Auctioned In September
Original works by Picasso and Warhol to go under the hammer The estate of one of Hollywood’s most colorful… Read More
11 August 2011
Should Councils Be Allowed To Sell Off Valuable Artworks?
Bolton’s Cut Price Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece undersold for £74,000 Cash-strapped local authorities are selling bits of their art collections to raise… Read More
16 July 2011
M F Husain India’s Pablo Picasso Dies At 95
M.F. Husain, one of the highest profile 20th century Indian, contemporary painters has died, age 95.
9 June 2011
Sex Lies and Pablo Picasso
New Picasso Marie-Therese Goes Under the Hammer for £12m A Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter is to… Read More
27 April 2011
$100m Picasso Painting Hung At Tate Modern
The most expensive painting in the world, sold at auction, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust 1932 by Pablo Picasso goes… Read More
7 March 2011
Picasso and Dyslexia
Scientists at Middlesex University in London claim that Picasso’s success may be attributed to his dyslexia The 20th century master… Read More
16 January 2011
Largest Picasso Canvas to be Exhibited At London’s V&A Museum
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is finally set to exhibit Picasso’s huge set design for the Ballets Russes. Measuring in… Read More
15 August 2010