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 ...

This painting by the artist Pablo Picasso is an example of a portrait close portraitA picture of a person, normally the face. made in the cubist style. Cubist art shows objects or people from many ...

At the end of the 19th century, long before starting to speak, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was already drawing – and he grew up “capturing” everything he saw with a pencil. Through several of the ...

One of the greatest, most probing episodes in the career of one of the greatest, most probing artists of all time looks as though it was inspired by a humble guitar. That's one conclusion to draw from ...

Since its early days Hollywood has likened films to art and filmmakers to artists, acknowledging art's impact on cinema, writes MARTIN A. GROVE. By Martin A. Grove, The Associated Press “Picasso” ...

Between 1904 and 1907, the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque worked together to develop Cubism, a movement which abandoned the traditional single point of view in a work of art and changed the ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

A charming Christmas scene hastily illustrated by artist Pablo Picasso on a postcard for his friends has emerged for sale for £30,000. The pen and ink drawing, done in 1919 by the Spanish painter, ...