Pablo Picasso

Edgar Degas (Paris, 1834-1917), Trois danseuses en buste (Three dancers busts), circa 1898. Pastel and charcoal on paper laid on cardboard, 52 x 43 cm. Signed with the artist's stamp lower left: Degas. © Bailly Gallery Kees van Dongen (Delftshaven 1877-1968 Monaco), Dreaming of love, 1931. Oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm. Signed upper left: van Dongen. Signed, titled, dated and located on the back. © Bailly Gallery. Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins), The doll, circa 1961. Wax crayon and pencil on cut cardboard, 28.7 x 20.5... [Lire la suite]

LONDON.- Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will be followed by The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, together launching ‘20th Century at Christie’s’ on 5 February 2020. Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait de Marjorie Ferry (1932, estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000) and Alberto Giacometti’s Trois hommes qui marchent (Grand plateau) (1948, estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000) will both lead the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale. Further highlights include George Grosz’s politically charged Gefährliche Straße... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8. Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, signed Claude Monet and dated 1903, lower left, oil on canvas, 65 by 100.3 cm. Painted in 1903. Estimate 20,000,000 — 30,000,000 USD. Sold for 27,600,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby’s. NEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday’s sale was led by Claude Monet’s Charing Cross Bridge from 1903, which sold for $27.6 million, one of the finest examples from Monet’s seminal London series ever to appear at auction. Previously in the collection of Andrea Klepetar-Fallek for the past 40 years, the... [Lire la suite]

FORT WORTH, TX.- Renoir: The Body, The Senses is the first major exhibition ever to focus on the artist's lifelong treatment of the nude. The exhibition, debuting on the centenary of the artist's death, provides new perspectives about Renoir's stylistic trajectory through the lens of the singular subject. Over the course of his career, Renoir rendered bustling cityscapes, captured portraits and impressions of fashionable society, and recorded fleeting atmospheric effects upon landscape, but his overarching preoccupation was the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 4. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Mousquetaire. Buste, signé 'Picasso' (en bas à droite); daté '25.5.67' (au revers) huile sur toile, 81 x 65 cm. Peint le 25 mai 1967. Estimate EUR 3,000,000 - EUR 5,000,000 (USD 3,298,120 - USD 5,496,866). Price realised EUR 3,464,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2019 signed 'Picasso' (lower right); dated '25.5.67' (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 26 5/8 in. Painted on 25 May 1967 Provenance: Galerie Louise Leiris,... [Lire la suite]

Lucas Cranach the Elder (Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar),  Portrait of a young woman, 1525), oil on beech wood, collection O. W. Klinckowström, Finnish National Gallery. Photo: Kansallisgalleria, Hannu Aaltonen. Courtesy Sinebrychoff Art Museum. Helsinki- Renaissance Beauties is the first monographic exhibition in Finland on the oeuvre of the great German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472−1553). The works on display include paintings and prints from the collections of... [Lire la suite]

Paul Gauguin, Paysage au toit rouge (Landscape with Red Roof). Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 66 cm. Rudolf Staechelin Collection. Photo: Robert Bayer. BASEL.- After four years, Rudolf Staechelin’s (1881–1946) renowned collection of paintings is returning to Basel. To celebrate the return of the Staechelin paintings to Basel and make them accessible to all, the Fondation Beyeler is offering free admission to the museum all weekend (31.8.–1.9.19). Following much-acclaimed exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte... [Lire la suite]

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Head of a Young Man (Tête de jeune homme), 1923. Grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 241/2 x 185/8 in. (62.2 x 47.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. BROOKLYN, NY.- Showcasing the breadth of the Brooklyn Museum's exceptional works on paper collection, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper highlights more than one hundred European... [Lire la suite]

Installation view. Photo: Paris Tavitian. © Museum of Cycladic Art. ATHENS.- The Museum of Cycladic Art is organizing a rare and original exhibition entitled Picasso and Antiquity. Line and Clay where ceramics and drawings by Picasso interact with ancient artefacts, as part of its Divine Dialogues exhibition series. Curated by Professor Nikolaos C. Stampolidis, Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art, and art historian Olivier Berggruen, the exhibition will last from 20 June to 20 October 2019. Sixty-eight rare... [Lire la suite]

Lot 32. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Nu assis appuyé sur des coussins, dated and numbered ’19.12. 64. III’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 21 ¼ x 28 ¾ in. (54 x 73 cm.) Painted on 19 December 1964. Estimate USD 2,500,000 - USD 3,500,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2019.  Provenance: Estate of the artist (until at least 1980). Private Collection, Europe.Private Collection, United States.PaceWildenstein, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 14 December 1999. Literature: C.... [Lire la suite]