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 ...
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 ...
Juan Gris, 1913: Pears and Grapes on a Table. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Source: Photo by the author. Since cubist art reduces ...
IN a warren of studios and flats known as “the wash house,” at No. 13 Rue Ravignan in Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes ...
Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, had an incredible artistic career that went on to inspire ...
Pablo Picasso’s Buffalo Bill, a pre-war Cubist painting depicting the American frontiersman, is expected to fetch between US$10 million and US$15 million next Thursday evening at Christie’s in New ...
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.) This dynamic painting likely from the 1960s is signed R. York Wilson lower right. Toronto-born R. York Wilson (1907-1984) had a successful career as a commercial artist ...
In a 1913 preview of the Autumn Salon in Paris, where Orphism was being touted as the hot thing in painting, the New York Times wrote: “Ordinary persons may take a long time to accept Orpheism [sic] ...