She's almost 90 and still living very much in the present, quietly painting every day in her West Side studio. Yet Françoise Gilot -- Picasso's muse and lover and the mother of two of his children -- is about to revisit her past. In May, John Richardson, Picasso's biographer, together with Valentina Castellani, a director of the Gagosian Gallery,...
Never mind that attendance at the Guggenheim Museum in New York is nearly the highest it's ever been. When ''Picasso Black and White'' opens a year from now, expect a few more. Just as the public never seems to tire of Picasso shows, there also never seems to be an end to new takes and twists on his work. At the Guggenheim, Carmen Giménez, the...
Maybe every museum, regardless of focus, should know the box-office thrill of staging a Picasso exhibition. In 2006 the Whitney Museum -- of American Art, mind you -- pulled it off with ''Picasso and American Art,'' a somewhat flawed effort that examined his influence on a host of major and minor American artists. Now the Frick Collection has edged...
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