Picasso

Christie's holds the first-ever auction of art created by artificial intelligence

The AI-generated “Portrait of Edmond Belamy” depicts a slightly blurry chubby man in a dark frock-coat.

From Raza's canvases to Husain's masterpieces, children must be taught early to appreciate art, say experts

Western countries encourage art appreciation for young children as their artistic communities recognise them as an audience early on. In India, this is still at its nascent stages but the recent past shows that it’s a trend that is surely picking up.

Rockefeller's Picasso, Monet paintings to go up for huge auction at Christie's for charity

Ten works on display at Christie’s in Paris, including the Picasso and a Monet, represent a small fraction of the 1,600 lots once owned by billionaire banker David Rockefeller and his wife Peggy that will go under the hammer in May for charity.

Rare Picasso painting to make its debut in Hong Kong, expected to fetch $50 million

The painting is a colourful and angular depiction of Picasso's French lover with a dark silhouette looming behind her face.

Picasso's nude portrait 'La Gommeuse' fetches over $67 million at Sotheby's auction

A Picasso picture of a cabaret artist, which carries a second painting on the reverse, sold for $67.45 million in New York on Thursday.

Most expensive painting ever! Picasso's 'Women of Algiers' sells for record breaking $179 million

A vibrant, multi-hued painting from Pablo Picasso set a world record for artwork at auction, selling for $179.4 million on Monday night, and a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti set a record for most expensive sculpture, at $141.3 million.

Picasso's 'The Blue Room' reveals hidden painting of a man

Curators and scientists are revealing they've found a hidden painting beneath the surface of one of Pablo Picasso's earliest masterpieces from 1901, The Blue Room, at The Phillips Collection in Washington.

El Greco, painter of alternative worlds (Feature)

Madrid, March 28 (IANS) El Greco broke away with the canons of painting and the treatment of 16th century religious figures by using colours differently and distorting perspective to the point that several experts consider him a creator of alternative worlds. Some blame his peculiar way of painting to a problem of astigmatism (although medical studies say otherwise), and for others he is a precursor by whose work Manet, Cezanne, Picasso and Cubism, Kokoschka, Beckmann and surrealism, Orozco, Matta and Pollock were inspired, says Prensa Latina news agency.

US holds on to $11.5 million Picasso after owner faced embezzlement charges

A 1909 Pablo Picasso painting titled "Compotier et tasse," or "Fruit bowl and cup," with an estimated worth of $11.5 million will be held by U.S. authorities for the Italian government pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against its owner in Italy, according to the terms of a judge's order signed Monday