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Billionaire cosmetics magnate Leonard A. Lauder pledged a 78-piece art collection, including 33 Picassos, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the museum announced yesterday.
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Steven Cohen, owner of SAC Capital Advisors LP, has bought Pablo Picasso’s “Le Reve” for $155 million from casino owner Steve Wynn, a person familiar with the transaction said.
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On February 17, 1901, a young Spanish poet and close friend of Pablo Picasso’s named Carles Casagemas invited several people to a Paris restaurant. After dinner he pulled out a gun, fired at one of his guests -- a model with whom he was in love -- then, having missed her, shot himself.
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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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Picasso biographer John Richardson stopped in front of “Bather Wringing Her Hair,” in which the artist’s mistress and muse Francoise Gilot appears as an awkwardly arched nude with her hair twisted in her chubby fists.
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The elevator to the Manhattan apartment of Picasso biographer John Richardson opens on life- size photocopies of two paintings.
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Research in Motion Ltd. shareholders should withhold votes for director John Richardson, based on a recommendation from Glass & Lewis Co.
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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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Research In Motion Ltd.’s management changes don’t go far enough in ensuring a turnaround, said Vic Alboini, a RIM shareholder who has been pushing for a sale of the BlackBerry maker.
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The age of austerity has been a jolly time for the art world, so far at least.
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