Picasso’s hidden portrait to go on show.
10 February 2025 • Mark Westall
Undiscovered painting by Picasso of a mystery woman, hidden for more than a century beneath a painting from his famous Blue Period revealed
Tag: Pablo Picasso
Rarely exhibited Picasso sketchbooks from 2nd World War to be brought together for new exhibition.
4 December 2024 • Mark Westall
A new exhibition at the Museo Picasso Málaga explores the radical development of Picasso’s artistic practice during his time at French coastal town of Royan
‘Picasso: printmaker’ new exhibition to open at British Museum
10 September 2024 • Mark Westall
100 prints from one of the world’s best-known artists – Pablo Picasso
Top 7 artworks Phillips’ Picasso & Editions Auctions.
30 May 2024 • Guest
Rebecca Tooby-Desmond, Phillips’ Specialist, Head of Sale and Auctioneer, Editions has picked 7 artworks to look out for at the… Read More
Gagosian to present ‘The Body as Matter: Giacometti Nauman Picasso’
15 May 2024 • Mark Westall
The Body as Matter: Giacometti Nauman Picasso, an exhibition of sculpture by Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), and Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).
Phillips to Showcase Pablo Picasso’s Buste de femme au chapeau in the New York Evening Sale of Modern & Contemporary Art
29 April 2024 • Mark Westall
With the full catalogue now available online, Phillips has shared further highlights from the May Evening Sale in New York, while announcing… Read More
M+ to open groundbreaking Picasso exhibition.
3 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Picasso for Asia: A Conversation. The exhibition will feature 60+ masterpieces from the late 1890s to the early 1970s by Pablo Picasso alongside works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists selected from the M+ Collections.
“Art Through Time: Contemporary Reflections”
2 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Alon Zakaim Fine Art open the highly anticipated exhibition “Art Through Time: Contemporary Reflections”, curated by contemporary art specialist Virginia Damtsa.
Fine art textiles by Picasso, Henry Moore, Elizabeth Frink & more in exhibition from Gray M.C.A
24 April 2023 • Mark Westall
Gray M.C.A, the international leaders in modern artist textiles have opened ‘Styled by Design’ – an outstanding exhibition of framed 20th Century Modernist Textiles.
See Picasso collection art directed by Sir Paul Smith
30 January 2023 • Mark Westall
It is fifty years since Pablo Picasso died, on 8th April 1973 at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, his home in Mougins.
Plates
2 December 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
Plates are a rather convenient way to display art, somewhere between ceramic – for the most part, though metals are possible – and painting. Ceramics are in vogue anyway, and as functional objects go, plates are easy to display. In ascending order of price, here are three recent initiatives which have stepped up to the plate:
Review: Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts
29 January 2020 • Lee Sharrock
Despite the wealth of museums and galleries worldwide exhibiting Picasso, the Royal Academy of Arts has managed to create an exhibition which looks at the maestro’s work with fresh eyes. Picasso and Paper features over 300 works
Opening this Saturday Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts
21 January 2020 • Mark Westall
This month the Royal Academy of Arts to present Picasso and Paper, the most comprehensive exhibition devoted to Picasso’s imaginative and original uses of paper ever to be held.
Picasso Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan’ gives a remarkable insight into the work and life of Picasso.
8 January 2020 • Mark Westall
Pablo Picasso Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan’ gives a remarkable insight into the work and life of Picasso.
“Picasso: Birth of a Genius” will be the largest exhibition of his work in China ever
4 January 2019 • Mark Westall
“Picasso – Birth of a Genius”—the most significant exhibition of work by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ever to take place in China—will be presented at UCCA
Picasso’s Visual Puns
18 April 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
Picasso isn’t strongly associated with setting up ambiguity in his paintings in the same systematic way as Dali is through his ‘paranoiac critical’ method in which elephants become swans etc. However, a couple of motifs from the tremendous show at the Tate may change your mind..
MoMA heads to Paris this Autumn touching down at Fondation Louis Vuitton
30 August 2017 • Mark Westall
The Museum of Modern Art is heading to the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris this October. For an exceptional exhibition devoted to the unrivaled collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
29 April 2017 • Syndicate
Gagosian, London
The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
Art Revolutionaries an exhibition featuring Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Julio González comes to London.
9 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Art Revolutionaries is an exhibition inspired by the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, commemorating 80 years since its inauguration
Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian hook up for Art Basel Miami Beach
24 November 2016 • Mark Westall
For Art Basel Miami Beach, Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian are hooking up to present “Desire,” an exhibition curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso, at the Moore Building in the Miami Design District.
Francis Bacon’s painting gloves are going to auction
2 June 2016 • Mark Westall
The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
How 2015 may have marked the end of the art market’s boom years
31 December 2015 • Mark Westall
New records were set at auction, but overall the art market cooled as the frenzy around young artists subsided and collectors in Russia and Brazil felt the pinch
Saturday FUN: New Book Iconic Artists and Their Cats
11 April 2015 • Staff
Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, so many great artists have one very furry thing in common: cats.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #143: ‘What Is and Is Not Present’
6 January 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Armin Boehm: ‘Gravity’, 2015 – oil and fabrics on wood: 110 x 70 cm Assessment of a curation has two… Read More