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 ...

Alain Moreau suggested that the mask long thought to be the painting's main influence was not in Europe until after the ...

A new theory is challenging the long-held belief that Picasso's groundbreaking "Demoiselles d'Avignon" was inspired by ...

The close and competitive working-relationship between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the radical, game-changing development of Cubist painting is a standard story in the history of Modern art.

Cubism 101 Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881. By age 23 he moved to Paris, then the art capital of Europe, where he found success fairly quickly.

On October 9, 1912, Pablo Picasso wrote a letter to Georges Braque, his confrere in Cubism, whom he later derided as “my wife” and who, for his part, described himself and Picasso as “two ...

Art History Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ Revolutionized Modern Art. Here Are 3 Things You Should Know About It The challenging composition paved the way for Cubism—and ...

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 ...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), La Femme au Mirroir (The Woman in the Mirror), 1950. Lithograph printed in red and black., 14.5 x 19.5 in. From the collection of Timothy Collins.

A more radical Pablo Picasso appears in “The Blue Room” (1901). The painter hasn’t settled for stylish ease found in other Blue Period paintings but depicts a bather with asymmetry.

This year, nearly 50 museums and galleries around the world are marking the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, by honoring the artist's revolutionary vision while also, in the era of # ...