Pablo Picasso’s Nude Green Leaves, and Bust sold for 106,482,500 USD (approximately 82,000,000 euros) to an unidentified telephone bidder, setting a new world record for any work of art sold at auction in New York City, New York, USA, 04 May 2010 Nude, Green Leaves and Bust – the Picasso painting that last year became [...]

It’s 1912, and Pablo Picasso is in Paris, thinking: All right, what’s next? A few years earlier he painted a killer picture, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” People had thrown up their hands in alarm; his friends hardly knew what to say. Energized by the fuss, he punched out variations on the theme: paintings of sharp-elbowed, wood-brown [...]

Pierre Le Guyennec, a retired electrician, speaks to journalists outside his home in Mouans Sartoux, Southern France, 29 November 2010. Mr. Le Guyennec, who worked for Pablo Picasso, claims he has hundreds of previously unknown works by the artist. The treasure trove of 271 pieces includes lithographs, cubist paintings, notebooks and a watercolor, and is [...]

Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto by Pablo Picasso The highest-profile piece sold was Picasso’s Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, purchased for £34,761,250 at the much anticipated sale by Christie’s on Wednesday evening. Picasso’s piece was from the collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber and was dropped from a New York sale four years ago at [...]

Workers hang a painting as they prepare the exhibition “Klee meets Picasso” at the “Zentrum Paul Klee” museum in Bern. The exhibition of works by Swiss artist Paul Klee and Spanish artist Pablo Picasso will open on June 6 and run until September 26 Two masters, four themes, eight pictures. Poetry here, drama there. Irony [...]

A member of the public looks at The Charnel House as part of the Picasso: Peace And Freedom exhibition. Lenin used the term “useful idiots” to describe Western liberals who turned a blind eye to the true nature of totalitarianism – and few were more idiotic or more useful to the Soviet cause than Pablo [...]

A lone thief broke into a Paris museum last night and stole five paintings worth €500m (£430m) including masterpieces by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, French police said today. A police spokesman said works by Picasso, Matisse, George Braque, Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger were reported missing early this morning from the Paris Museum of [...]