Although Pablo Picasso’s “Head of a Woman” might be back in safe hands again, it did not manage to escape damage. The good news, if it can be called that, is that the damage to the paintings stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens is not invisible to the naked eye. The work now… […]
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Pablo Picasso’s stolen painting sustained damage but it’s not visible to the naked eye
Picasso and Pollock in Tehran? Thank Donna Stein for That
One doesn’t often think about the imaginative Cubism of Pablo Picasso or the textural richness of Jackson Pollock when thinking about Iran, but in her vivid new memoir, “The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art” (Skira, 2021), revered art historian, curator and critic Donna Stein reveals how one […]
Spanish chocolatiers present replica of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’
Euskal Gozogileak (Basque Confectioners) association members exhibit a life-size chocolate version of Picasso’s painting “Guernica” in the Spanish Basque town of Guernica. The 7.70m x 3.50m chocolate replica made by around 40 confectioners is been exhibited in the town to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the 1937 bombing raid of the small Basque town by […]
Picasso’s secrets: Cutting edge tech reveals what lies beneath ‘Crouching Woman’ (PHOTOS)
In 1957, Picasso pondered whether x-ray technology might one day reveal the secrets of his technique, reports National Geographic. Now, teams from the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and the National Gallery of Art, Washington appear to have proven him right, […]