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Picasso Painting Fetches $40.7 Million at Auction

LONDON -- A Pablo Picasso painting depicting his young lover Marie-Therese Walter has sold for 25.2 million pounds ($40.7 million) at a London auction. Sotheby's / AP This painting, "La Lecture," by Pablo Picasso sold at auction on Tuesday for $40.7 million. Sotheby's says the 1932 painting, called "La...

Legal Fight Looms Over Staggering Picasso Find

NICE, France (Nov. 29) -- A retired French electrician living on the Riviera has stunned the art world and left Picasso's heirs in "a state of shock" after coming forward with 271 undocumented works of Picasso that the painter's estate believes are authentic. Pierre Le Guennec, 71, who lives with his wife, Danielle, in...

Staggering Picasso Trove Turns Up in France

PARIS (Nov. 29) -- A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least euro60 million ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist's estate said Monday. The electrician, who once worked for Picasso, and his wife for...

Picasso Fetches $51M, but That's Just Part of Picture

(June 24) -- London has been awash in high-end art auctions this week, with a Pablo Picasso portrait of a close friend fetching $51.2 million and a self-portrait by Edouard Manet bringing in a record $33 million. Yet despite what might seem like a bit of a boom in austere times, buyers this week are being cautious and...

Paris Museum's Alarms Were Down Before Heist

(May 21) -- A masked man may have pulled off one of the world's biggest art thefts in 15 minutes because Paris' Museum of Modern Art had a broken alarm as well as three security guards who apparently saw and heard nothing, city officials said today. Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement today he was "very upset" by...

Background on picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (, 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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