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Recovered Picassos at Center of Art Theft Trial in Nice, France

01/10/2026

Seven years after an undercover sting led police to a house packed with stolen art in the hills above Nice, France, the case has returned to court, with ten defendants now on trial over a cache that included several works …

Метки : искусствокражасудпикассорасследованиеницца

You Can Snag a €1 Million Picasso for Just €100 in a Global Raffle

12/11/2025

You might associate raffles with pretty low stakes: pitch in a few dollars for the Girl Scouts, say, and win a chance for something like a gift card or a spa day. But now aspiring art collectors can donate just …

Метки : искусствоблаготворительностьпикассоальцгеймерлотереяисследования

Jeffrey Epstein Discussed Leon Black's Picasso Purchase from Gagosian

11/17/2025

A newly released set of emails written and received by the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shows that he discussed a plan by billionaire art collector Leon Black to buy a Picasso painting from Gagosian gallery. Epstein’s ties to Black …

Метки : джеффри эпштейнлеон блэкпикассогагосинискусствоаукционы

German Police Bust Suspected Forgery Ring for Fake Rembrandt, Picasso

10/28/2025

German police said they busted an international forgery ring that was trying to sell fake works for millions of dollars to unsuspecting collectors. The fraudsters claimed the works were by artists including Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, and Frida Kahlo.An unnamed 77-year-old …

Метки : искусствоподделкирасследованиегерманиярембрандтпикассо

Picasso Work Vanishes En Route to Exhibition

10/22/2025

Picasso Work Vanishes En Route to Exhibition A gouache-and-pencil work on paper by Picasso insured for $700,000 has gone missing in transit between Madrid and Granada. TitledNaturaleza muerta con guitarra(Still Life with Guitar), the roughly five-by-four-inch 1919 piece was one …

Метки : искусствопикассовыставкагранадазагадкакража

Picasso Work Goes Missing in Transport Between Madrid and Granada

10/17/2025

A work on paper by Pablo Picasso left Madrid two weeks ago and has not been accounted for between there and its intended destination in Granada, according to a report on Thursday in El Pais. “The work, half a page …

Метки : искусствопикассокражарасследованиевыставкагранада

Picasso Museum in Paris Plans $59 M. Expansion with New Sculpture Park

09/30/2025

The Musée Picasso-Paris announced plans for a €50 million (around $59 million) “transformation” including a new wing for temporary exhibitions and a reconfigured design to combine its garden with the nearby Square Léonor-Fini. The construction work is slated to take …

Метки : музейпикассопарижискусствореконструкциявыставки

Little-Known Picasso Painting of Dora Maar Put Up by Paris Auction House

09/19/2025

A Pablo Picasso painting not seen by the public in 80 years is now on view at the French auction house Lucien Paris. The work, a portriat of Dora Maar, the artist’s lover, muse, and an artist in her own …

Метки : пикассодора маарискусствоаукционпарижкартина

Picasso Inspires Name of Newly Discovered Microsnail

09/16/2025

Remember the taxonomy mnemonic you learned in high school biology? It will come in handy again while trying to parse the news about the recent discovery of 46 new species (all falling under the same genus, Anauchen) of Southeast Asian …

Метки : научное открытиемикроснайлпикассомалакологияискусствоэкология

Basquiats Linked to 1MDB Scandal Auctioned by US Government

09/06/2025

Four artworks by Jean-Michael Basquiat, Diane Arbus, and Pablo Picasso surrendered to the US Department of Justice in connection with the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal collectively netted some $36 million in an online auction conducted by the US Marshals …

Метки : искусствоаукционбаскияпикассоди каприоскандал

Sasan Ghandehari Sues Christie's Over Picasso Once Owned by a Criminal

08/21/2025

Collector Sasan Ghandehari recently filed a lawsuit against Christie’s, alleging that the auction house did not inform him that a painting by Pablo Picasso was owned by someone convicted of drug-related charges before he purchased the work. According to the …

Метки : искусствоаукционпикассосудchristie'sколлекционирование

Picasso's 'Demoiselles' May Not Have Been Inspired by African Art

07/28/2025

New scholarship suggests that a pivotal Pablo Picasso painting—one that helped spur on modernism more broadly—may have been inspired by Medieval church frescoes in the Spanish Pyrenees rather than African art, as many art historians have previously suggested. The canvas …

Метки : пикассосовременное искусствоисследованиякультурное наследиесредневековьеискусствоведение

Climate Activist Hurls Paint at Picasso Painting at Montreal Museum

06/21/2025

On Thursday, a Picasso painting on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was splashed with bright pink paint by an environmental activist, in the latest of such attempts to draw attention to the accelerating climate crisis. Footage posted …

Метки : экологияискусствопротестпикассоклиматический кризиссоциальные медиа

Giacometti Fails to Sell, Wright Lamp Sets Record at Sotheby’s

05/14/2025

Sotheby’s modern art evening sale in New York on Tuesday night collectively hammered at $152 million, or $186.4 million with buyer’s premium, across 60 lots. Fifty works sold, for a sell-through rate of 83.3 percent. Roughly 40 percent of the …

Метки : аукционискусствоsotheby'sджакометтипикассосовременное искусство