Life was sweet for Picasso during his 10 years of romance and cohabitation with Françoise Gilot, from 1943 to 1953. Or so it would seem, judging by ''Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris, 1943-1953,'' a wonderful exhibition at Gagosian Gallery. The Picasso of these years -- he was in his 60s and early 70s -- seems to revel in the joys of...
BARCELONA is always gravitating toward what's next, what's new. Sure, the Catalan capital in northeastern Spain is rich with historic sites and classic tourist activities -- browsing the centuries-old Boqueria market, studying the works of Picasso and Miró, posing with Gaudí's frosted fairytale houses in Parc Güell -- but the city's current...
NEW YORK -- The art market made a quantum leap this week when ''The Scream,'' a pastel drawn by Edvard Munch in 1895, sold for just under $120 million -- $119,922,500 to be precise. Some will argue that the pastel is such an unusual work that it would be unwise to draw general inferences from it. In art historical terms, this is true, bearing in...
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25. oktober 1881 i Málaga, Spanien - 8. april 1973 i Mougins, Frankrig), Fulde navn: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Mártir Patricio Ruiz y Picasso) var en spansk kunstmaler og kommunist.
Picasso anses for at være en af det 20. århundredes største malere. Sammen med Georges Braque grundlagde han kubismen. Picasso malede igennem sin karriere i mange forskellige stilarter og lavede også skulpturer. Kendt er hans "blå periode".
Picassos mest berømte værk anses at være afbildning - en afbildning af tyske flys bombning af Guernica under Den Spanske Borgerkrig. Picassos unikke udtryk og indflydelse på det 20. århundredes kunsthistorie har gjort hans billeder uhyre eftertragtede. Således blev maleriet Garçon à la Pipe (1905) i 2004 solgt for en rekordpris på $ 104 millioner - en pris der siden er overgået af Gustav Klimts maleri Portræt af Adele Bloch-Bauer, der blev solgt for $ 135 millioner i 2006. Og Jackson Pollocks maleri
"No. 5, 1948" der blev solgt for 140 millioner $ i November 2006. Fold ud