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Pablo Picasso’s cherry-red musketeer painting “Homme a l’epee” has been sold for a whopping $11.5 million, the highest price of the season, and it leads Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist & Modern Art. With the pre-sale estimates of between...
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Dutch police have recovered eight valuable paintings, including works by Renoir and Pissaro, 22 years after they were stolen from a gallery.
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As the nation grapples with its worst recession since the 1930s, the Smithsonian American Art Museum is opening an exhibition of paintings from the first U.S....
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Art thieves who tried to sell a Florentine painting worth 2.5 million euros ($3.15 million) to undercover officers for 5,000 euros ($6,300) have been arrested by...
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I have already listed Francis Bacon’s Bullfight painting and his self portrait in my list of top 10 most hyped auction sales of 2007. Now, a three-part painting...
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Up for auction at Sothbey’s on 14 November will be a Francis Bacon painting of a bullfight, which is valued at more than $35 million. Origin of this game dates...
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A Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece, supposed to be the artist’s final piece of work, completed on 10th July 1890, is to be put on the public market for the first...
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Angelina Jolie spent a whooping $400,000 on three art pieces at Guerilla artist Banksy’s Los Angeles show this week.
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M F Husain’s latest painting exhibition in London included two nude portrayals of Hindu goddesses. Mr. Husain did it again in the name of art. The angersand...
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Playfuls has published a wonderful list of 10 most expensive paintings sold at auction worldwide. Picasso tops the chart with its 104.2 million ‘Garcon a la...
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Good news for all high grade students, burning the midnight oil, to get the hang of fundamentals pertaining to optics, vision and image. Devorah Sperber, a New York...
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A painting by Pablo Picasso that was expected to fetch more than $30 million at auction next week has been withdrawn from sale, Sotheby’s auction house said...
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AP, New York
When eccentric socialite and art dealer William M.V. Kingsland died two years ago, he left an extensive collection of Pablo Picasso paintings and other works crammed...
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AP, Sao Paulo
Heavily armed robbers stole two engravings by Pablo Picasso from an art museum in downtown Sao Paulo on Thursday, a museum official said.Carla Regina, a spokeswoman for...
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AP, Sao Paulo
A museum spokeswoman says heavily armed robbers have stolen two engravings by Pablo Picasso from an art museum in downtown Sao Paulo.The thieves also have taken two oil...
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AP, Palm Beach
Police say two Pablo Picasso etchings worth a combined $450,000 have been stolen from a gallery in Palm Beach.Authorities responded to an alarm at Gallery Biba at about...
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Pablo Picasso was the most renowned feature in twentieth century art, a painter whose area of expertise was the naturalistic delineation but wonder what would have been...
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