During her reign as the first crowned Empress in Iranian history, Empress Farah Pahlavi amassed one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art for her country, including works by van Gogh, Picasso, Bacon, Rothko and de Kooning.
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The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Optical illusions, step into the light, Picasso, immigration, singing stones, tea and life.
Continue Reading...10 Picassos found in Tehran Museum’s collection of Western art.
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is home to one of the world’s greatest collections of postwar Western artworks. During the 1979 revolution, the museum locked its North American and European collections in a basement vault to protect them from the war, many of the works have stayed there for decades. One of the known […]
Continue Reading...The effervescent mind of Picasso, month by month
Tate just presented its first ever solo Pablo Picasso show. It is an opportunity not to be missed to follow the almost schizophrenic production of Picasso, created in the span of just one year, marked by love, eroticism, fame, and tragedy
Continue Reading...New Picasso museum with the largest collection of his work ever, to be opened by stepdaughter.
Picasso’s stepdaughter is opening a Museum that will house the largest-ever collection of the artist’s work.The museum will be built in a former convent in the South of France and is expected to open in 2021.
Continue Reading...The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
Matadors, decaying ceramics, calligraphy, razor wire, a house on fire, a marble mattress and over 1000 works of art.
Continue Reading...The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you. And if you haven’t seen them yet, most of last week’s top 5 are still open to visit as well: Sebastian Gordin: If animals didn’t exist […]
Continue Reading...Picasso Portraits at National Portrait Gallery
During what is now commonly referred to as ‘Frieze Week’ – such is the power of the art fair behemoth that is Frieze – the National Portrait Gallery have unveiled “Picasso Portraits”, and proven that the Modern Masters beat the young pretenders to the art world throne hands down.
Continue Reading...British Museum acquires rare group of post-war Picasso prints
The British Museum has acquired sixteen important lithograph prints and three aquatint prints by Pablo Picasso covering the post-war period from the late 1940s to the late 1950s.
Continue Reading...What’s Wrong With Art: The $179.3m Headline
Who cares about the amount it sells for
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