And at Sotheby's last month, Picasso's "Femme à la Montre" ("Woman with a Watch") became the most expensive painting to be auctioned this year, selling for $139.4 million. Sotheby's art handlers ...

At the end of the 19th century, long before starting to speak, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was already drawing – and he grew up “capturing” everything he saw with a pencil. Through several of the ...

The Art Museum of Philadelphia has sorted through its basement and pulled out rarely seen works by Picasso. The new exhibit displays more than 200 works made by Pablo Picasso and his contemporaries in ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The close and competitive working-relationship between Pablo Picasso and ...

Between 1904 and 1907, the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque worked together to develop Cubism, a movement which abandoned the traditional single point of view in a work of art and changed the ...

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914, a show at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011, was one of the best exhibitions I’ve seen: It was tightly focused and profoundly informative, and showed off some of the most ...

Art — “The expression of human creative skill and imagination.” Artists mix up varieties of colors to paint something unique. They sharpen fine lead to sketch the little things that come up in their ...