Picasso

A lesser-known portrait of photographer Dora Maar by Picasso was sold for $37 million, four times its estimated value. Titled "Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora Maar)", the 1943 painting was one of the many portraits the artist…

Four works previously confiscated in relation to the 1MDB scandal, including two Basquiat works, were auctioned online for $36 million. The collage Red Man One (1982) by Jean-Michael Basquiat brought the bulk of the revenues for the…

Last week, a Picasso painting at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art was attacked with paint by a climate activist. The incident occurred on Thursday, though it gathered traction only after the footage was posted on Instagram by the…

It all begins with a question—or rather, five. Five questions that have always fascinated and unsettled us: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What’s out there? And… why? If we truly wish to find answers, we must go…

Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, which recently attracted attention for excluding individuals who “do not identify as ladies” from its “Ladies Lounge” installation, has again found itself in the spotlight. This time,…

Two men, who had sold fake Dalí and Picasso works worth $3.2 million, were sentenced to prison earlier this month. Behrad Kazemi and Raj Nasta were accused of running a fraudulent financial service that duped people into buying fake…

The year 2023 finally saw a downturn in the rising trend that began in 2021. The pandemic era saw even more interest in blue-chip art, with all of the top ten artworks of 2021 selling for more than $50 million. Just a year prior in 2020,…

As the year 2023 comes to a close, it is time to take a look back and see how the art world fared. And like every year, it was not without challenges. While the difficulties that arose from the pandemic are now finally in the past, new…

Claude Picasso, son of Pablo Picasso and longtime administrator of his estate, died on Thursday at the age of 76. Claude Picasso was one of the four children of Picasso and his last surviving son. Notably, he died mere months after his…

Italian land artist Dario Gambarin has arguably created the largest-ever portrait of artist Pablo Picasso on his death anniversary. For the feat, Dario Gambarin chose Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a self-portrait by Picasso which was…