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• Matisse and Picasso Videos - Two artists that I can never get enough of are Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Picasso because he's a ball of energy that lived to paint, and Matisse because he painted to make the world a more beautiful place.
• Most Influential Work of Art - Newsweek has asked the question; "Which Is the Most Influential Work of Art Of the Last 100 Years?" Possible answers they offered were..
• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon after One Hundred Years - The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is celebrating 100 years of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" painting.
• Two Pablo Picasso Paintings Stolen - At least two Pablo Picasso paintings have been stolen from the Paris apartment of the grand-daughter of Picasso, Diana Widmaier-Picasso. The works are estimated to be worth more than $60 million US dollars.
• Steve Wynn Elbows a Picasso - The Las Vegas casino billionaire recently made international headlines after bumping into his painting by Pablo Picasso and putting a hole in it. How pointy must his elbows be to put a hole in the canvas?
• Pablo Picasso Portrait for Auction - A painting of Angel Fernandez de Soto by his friend Pablo Picasso will soon go up for auction at Christies. It is expected to reach $60 million. The proceeds of the sale will go to the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.
• The New Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - The American photographer Luis Gispert has reinterpreted Pablo Picasso's ground breaking work, the Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
• Guernica and Picasso - There's an interesting article over at the New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl about Picasso and his famous painting, Guernica.
• Dora Maar Sells for $95.2 Million - A painting of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso has sold for $95.2 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. The estimate of $50 million was almost doubled!
• Rich Artists = Bad Art? - Vincent struggled for his art, so did Modigliani, but artists like Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, and more recently Damien Hirst could afford to pay an army of assistants to work for them.
• Pablo Picasso Dies - On the 8th of April, 1973 the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso passed away. It was interesting reading the article that the BBC wrote at the time. It kind of makes Picasso more of a man and less of a myth, knowing that the artist lived a regular life too.
• Pablo Picasso Painting of Dora Maar - An important work by Pablo Picasso of his model of nearly ten year, Dora Maar will be up for auction at Sotheby's in New York on the 3rd of May this year. It has been in private hands for 40 years and has rarely been seen by the public. It is expected to sell for around $50 million.
• Picasso Exhibition in Istanbul Turkey - Pablo Picasso has created quite a media frenzy in Istanbul, Turkey with a major exhibition by the Spaniard being opened this week.
• Pablo Picasso Quotes - After browsing around the internet looking for art news and coming up with nothing much, I decided to just add some favorite art quotes. One can never have too many inspirational artist quotes!
• Looted Picasso Painting - The owner of a 1922 Picasso "Femme en blanc" valued at about $12,000,000 has opted to pay out $6 million to the grandson of a Jewish woman that once owned the painting in 1940.
• Picasso Sells Online - An original Picasso scribble has sold at the online retailer Costco.com for $39,999. Costco sells an eclectic range of goods online and have now added high priced original Picasso works to the range.
• Pablo Picasso painting found under a Picasso Painting - Something many struggling artists resort to.. painting over old paintings.

Posts that have mentioned the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso

• Art Collector Heinz Berggruen Dies at 93 - The Jewish German art collector Heinz Berggruen has died on the 23rd of February at the age of 93. Berggruen collected major works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Pablo Picasso.
• 50 Works of Art to See Before You Die - Jonathon Jones of the Guardian is putting together a list of 50 great works of art to see before you die. He has started with a list of his 20 favorite art works and is asking readers for their suggestions.
• My Favorite Artists - It's hard to narrow it down to just a set list of artists as I have been influenced by so many artists over the years. I also fall in and out of love with particular artists, but a certain few always remain close to me.
• Van Gogh Painting Sells for $40 Million - Another important work will go up for auction tonight. Pablo Picasso's portrait of Dora Maar With Cat is expected to reach $50 million.
• Modigliani Movie - I recently watched the Modigliani movie, thanks to fellow artist Leith. I think it's generally a challenging thing for a movie maker to create a film about an artist that is interesting, believable, and not too Hollywood-ized.
• "Modern Art Movement" exhibition in Iran - A very impressive collection of modern paintings have gone exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran. "Modern Art Movement" has major works from many of the most important artists of the 20th century. Works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and many others are on display.
• Congo - Monkey Art - An American contemporary art collector "Howard Hong" bought the monkey paintings in London, at Bonhams auction house. The directory of modern and contemporary art at Bonhams said "We had no idea what these things were worth. We just put them in for our own amusement."
  It has been reported that Pablo Picasso once hung a Congo the monkey painting in his studio.
• Vincent van Gogh's Birthday - It is the Dutchman's birthday today and Google is celebrating it with a Van Gogh-ish Google logo on their homepage.
• Rich Art Collectors - Modern day Medicis or top billionaire art collectors according to the Forbes Business magazine.
• 4 year old art prodigy? - This story below made me think of this quote from the art critic Clement Greenburg..
  "In visual arts, prodigies don't count. In music and literature, yes, but not in art." Clement Greenburg
• You call that art? A chimp could have painted it - It is said that, given enough time, a chimpanzee at a typewriter could produce the works of Shakespeare. So how many years would it take for one with a brush and palette to turn out a Picasso?
  

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