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A 1909 Wassily Kandinsky painting sold for a record $23 million, one of the few bright spots at Christie’s last night as nearly a third of the Impressionist and modern art went unsold.
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Pablo Picasso, famous for his love life, put women at the center of his painting, interpreting the world through them and using them to project his erotic desires.
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Pablo Picasso met Francoise Gilot, then a 21-year-old painter, in a Paris restaurant in 1943 during the Nazi occupation, and the two became lovers. While artists such as Max Ernst fled Paris for the U.S., Picasso hung tough even though the Germans prohibited his art from being shown.
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A $40.4 million Gustav Klimt painting underpinned a rebound in art auctions last night as Sotheby’s sold $200 million of Impressionist and modern works in New York, beating a sale the previous day by Christie’s International.
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U.S. billionaire Wilbur Ross paid $11.3 million for a Rene Magritte painting in London last night as collectors battled for Impressionist and modern art.
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Pablo Picasso’s 1967 painting “L’Aubade” could fetch as much as $25 million at Sotheby’s in New York next month.
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A painting by Joan Miro sold for a record $37 million last night as billionaire buyers fought over the most desirable works and passed on lesser Impressionist and modern pieces.
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Pablo Picasso was not your typical senior citizen. He lived in the south of France with women half his age, fathered more children, and remarried at 79.
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The beautiful, sad-looking Olga Kokhlova, a dancer with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, sits with her right arm draped over the back of a chair, a partially open fan in her lap. The dark floral patterns of her dress and the upholstery stand out against the flat background of pale gold.
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) had an epic life. He lived to be almost 92 years old, enjoyed almost uninterrupted health and success, and worked virtually every day for more than seven decades.
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