Modern masterworks by celebrated artists including Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse will be featured in an upcoming University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA)-organized exhibition at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second St. in downtown Davenport, IA. Jackson Pollock, “Mural,” 1943, oil on canvas, 8′ 1 1/4″ x 19′ 10″. The exhibition, [...]

Kunstmuseum Basel presents today Pablo Picasso: Prints, on view through May 24, 2009. Pablo Picasso applied himself with great intensity to the specific possibilities of print techniques. From woodcuts and etchings to lithographs and linoleum cuts, he employed every known printing method with stupendous ease and mastery, developing complex mixed techniques and experimenting with polychrome [...]

Picasso was one of 20th-century art’s major makers and shapers. He was also one of its most prolific purveyors of kitsch. I would place a high percentage of his output in the kitsch category. That would include some of the dozen closely related paintings in the exhibition “Picasso’s ‘Marie-Thérèse’ ” at Acquavella Galleries, and for [...]

Pablo Picasso was trained in the strict rules of academic painting at a very early age, first by his father, José Ruiz-Blasco, a teacher at the fine art school in Málaga and director of the Malaga Museum, and then as a student (1893-1899) at the fine arts school of La Corùna, at La Lonja (Barcelona), [...]

One of the most important works by artist Pablo Picasso is to be sold at auction in New York. Picasso’s Arlequin was last seen in public 45 years ago and is expected to fetch over $30m (£16.3m) when it goes under the hammer in November. The Cubist painting was owned by Surrealist artist Enrico Donati, [...]

The Bass Museum of Art presents today 20th Century Works on Paper from the Fundacion Mapfre Collection: Picasso, Tàpies, Miró and Others , on view through November 2, 2008. This extraordinary exhibition is comprised of approximately 80 works on paper by some of the 20th century’s most renowned Spanish artists, as well as artists from [...]

Brazilian police have recovered the final piece of artwork that was stolen during a daylight heist at the Estacao Pinacoteca Museum in Sao Paulo on June 12. Brazilian police present, today August 18, in Sao Paulo, the recovered art work Minotaur, Drinker and Women (1933), made by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.