How good, really, was Pablo Picasso? The exemplary modern artist died 50 years ago this month, ... The age-old war between the sexes is, after all, a legitimate subject of art.

Pablo Picasso's *Guernica* stands as one of the most potent anti-war paintings in modern history. Created in 1937, it was Picasso's visceral response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica ...

In “Picasso’s War,” Hugh Eakin, an editor at Foreign Affairs, relates how a handful of American admirers waged a three-decade battle of taste to create a museum and a market for modern ...

The artist's ceramic pieces combined practicality with aesthetics. Now, seven of his hand-painted dishes are heading to the ...

Otto Freundlich's "Large Head," reproduced on the cover of the guide to the exhibition "Degenerate 'Art'," 1937 (mahJ/Christophe Fouin) PARIS In 1943, Pablo Picasso received a desperate letter ...

Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, via Art Resource Enter Alfred H. Barr, the hero of the book’s second half.

Pablo Picasso's status as a legendary artist has made his paintings the gold standard of the art world market for more than 40 years since his death.

When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art Matthew Algeo. Chicago Review, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-641-60787-2 ...

Pablo Picasso. Add Topic. ... Guernica: An anti-war symbol, this painting was completed in 1937 as a reaction to the Nazi bombing of the Spanish Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Yet through all of this, Picasso was back in Paris, mired in personal turmoil and emotionally detached from the war. He was still in the grips of a bitter and drawn-out legal battle with his ...

Set in 1941 Paris, the play portrays a fictional encounter between legendary Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (Howard Metz) and ...