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NEWS ABOUT: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso stories: 13 news summaries
obituary roundup

 Photographer 
 Irving Penn 
 Dead at 92 


Oct 7, 09 6:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Irving Penn, a giant in photography whose images can be found in fashion magazines—he started at Vogue in 1943—as well as museums, is dead at 92. A roundup of obituaries of the man who photographed everyone from Picasso to Gisele Bündchen:
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Missing Picasso Found in Iraq?! Probably Not.

The Naked Woman likely not missing, nor
a Picasso, say experts

Aug 27, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • art museum • war • Kuwait • The Louvre • Pablo Picasso • art heist • forgery • invasion

(Newser) - Thieves stole a sketchbook containing 33 Pablo Picasso drawings from the Picasso Museum in Paris, the Daily Mail reports. The security system was somehow disabled and there was no sign of forced entry. The theft occurred sometime last night or early today and resembles the 2007 robbery of the home... More »

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organized crime • police • France • robbery • Paris • Pablo Picasso • art heist • Picasso Museum

 Picasso's 
 'Magical' 
 Château 
 to Open 

Studio, burial ground private up til now

Jun 9, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - This summer, art fiends can visit Pablo Picasso’s final resting place for the first time—a château where “he devoted himself completely to his art,” the Telegraph reports. Picasso discovered Château de Vauvenargues in the foothills of France’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain made famous... More »

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art museum • France • art • Picasso • artist • Pablo Picasso • Jay-ZTV

 Buyers Return 
 for Healthy 
 Christie's Sale 

Auction house pulls in $103M, besting rival Sotheby's

May 7, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The art market performed better last night at Christie's New York sale of Impressionist and modern art, pulling in $103 million after a lackluster showing by its rival Sotheby's on Tuesday. The top lot was a 1968 portrait by Picasso, which sold for $14.6 million. As the Wall Street ... More »

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art market • Christie's • art auction • Pablo Picasso • Degas

 Sotheby's Sale 
 Busts, Picasso 
 Goes Unsold 

$61.3M result fails to reach low estimate

May 6, 09 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The art market failed to recover from its recent slump last night, as Sotheby's held a disappointing New York sale that saw works by Picasso and Giacometti go unsold. The small auction of 36 lots brought in just $61.3 million—well below the low estimate of $81.5 million.... More »

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art market • art • Sotheby's • modern art • art auction • Pablo Picasso • Alberto Giacometti

 Strapped 
 Art Market 
 Preps for 
 Auctions 

Expectations low as auction houses try variety of tactics

May 1, 09 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - After a 7-year boom, art auction houses are struggling as collectors hit hard by the recession close their wallets. Sotheby’s predicts it will pull in $179 million to $256 million at spring sales, compared to $742 million a year ago. As the spring events approach, auctioneers are employing an... More »

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art market • art • Andy Warhol • Sotheby's • Christie's • Damien Hirst • Francis Bacon • Mark Rothko • art auction • Jeff Koons • Pablo Picasso • financial crisis • Alberto Giacometti • Robert Gober • Tamara de Lempicka • Jean-Michel Basquiat • Tom Wesselman

 Sotheby's Pulls 
 $30M Picasso 
 on Market Jitters 

Top lot in Nov. auction withdrawn as seller panics

Oct 28, 08 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A painting from Picasso's Cubist period that was one of the highlights of the fall auction season has been pulled "for private reasons," Sotheby's New York office said yesterday. The withdrawal of Arlequin, a 1909 work which was estimated at more than $30 million, had been rumored for... More »

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art market • art • Sotheby's • auction • art auction • Pablo Picasso

 Hirst Auction Yields $199M 

Dealer-less London sale smashes records

Sep 17, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Damien Hirst sold 223 pieces of artwork for $199 million by the end of a two-day auction yesterday, shattering the record for most revenue in an auction of a single artist’s work, Forbes reports. The previous mark was held by Pablo Picasso, with 88 sold for $20 million in... More »

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art market • art • Damien Hirst • sales • credit crisis • art auction • Pablo Picasso

 Ownership Dispute 
 Swirls Around NY Picassos 

Heirs of German-Jewish banker say Nazis forced sale of paintings, now worth millions

Aug 20, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The heirs of a German-Jewish banker are demanding that New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim relinquish possession of two works by Picasso, Der Spiegel reports. The heirs say the two paintings, Boy Leading a Horse and Le Moulin de la Galette, unjustly fell into the hands of... More »

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Germany • Jews • art • World War II • MoMA • Pablo Picasso • anti-Semitism • Nazis • Guggenheim • Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

 Economist
 Rates Art
 by Numbers

Professor studies textbook reproductions to determine greatness

Aug 4, 08 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most art historians would agree that Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon is a great painting. But one economist says it's the best work of art of the 20th century, and he can prove it. The New York Times reports on the work of David Galenson, who analyzed the frequency of reproductions... More »

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art • economics • critic • Pablo Picasso • quantitative analysis

 Brazil Thieves Nab 2 Picassos  

Second time in weeks that Sao Paulo criminals have stolen Pablo's work

Jun 12, 08 7:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Picasso remains the artist of choice for the criminal elite of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Three armed robbers made off with two of his prints—The Painter and the Model and Minotaur, Drinker and Women—from a city museum today, Reuters reports. The robbery comes just weeks after thieves nabbed Picasso's ... More »

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art • Brazil • Sao Paulo • Pablo Picasso • art heist

Brazilian Cops Recover
Stolen Picasso

Blue Period painting taken from Sao Paulo museum last month

Jan 9, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Police in Brazil have recovered a Picasso painting stolen from a Sao Paulo museum last month and arrested two suspects yesterday. The Picasso, Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, and a painting by Brazilian Candido Portinari are valued at a combined $55 million. The thieves broke into the museum using a hydraulic... More »

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Brazil • painting • Candido Portinari • Pablo Picasso • Portrait of Suzanne Bloch • Sao Paulo Museum of Art • Mauricio Freire • Julio Neves • art heist

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