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Picasso's $115-million 'Young Girl' to be loaned to Paris museum

Sun, 13 May 2018 11:19:41 +0200

Picasso's "Young Girl With Basket of Flowers," recently sold at a New York auction for $115 million, will be loaned to Paris's Musee d'Orsay for a Picasso exhibit opening in September.

Picasso's French Riviera mansion set to sell for 'bargain' €20 million

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:56:27 +0200

Picasso's mansion on the French Riviera - where his last wife tragically shot herself - is expected to be sold for more than 20 million euros ($24 million) at an auction on Thursday.

Iconic artworks to come to Paris for blockbuster show

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:02:35 +0200

Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" and Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans" will be among iconic works from New York's Museum of Modern Art in a blockbuster show opening in Paris next month.

Hidden Picassos: Court upholds guilty verdict for French couple

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:39:43 +0100

A French court on Friday upheld the two-year suspended sentences of Pablo Picasso's former electrician and his wife, who kept 271 of his artworks stashed in their garage for almost 40 years.

Picasso's widow 'hid 300 artworks from his son'

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:05:43 +0100

A retired electrician who kept nearly 300 Pablo Picasso artworks in his garage for almost 40 years told an appeal court Monday that the artist's widow wanted to keep the works hidden from his son Claude.

'France has fewer rapes because less repressed'

Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:30:42 +0100

Picasso's former long-time lover Françoise Gilot has written a new book in which she says there are fewer rapes in France because people are less repressed and that the women smile at wolf whistlers.

Russian tycoon hands France 'stolen' Picassos

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:54:45 +0200

A billionaire Russian art collector has handed over two Picasso watercolours to French authorities investigating whether they were stolen, in the latest twist of a feud with his Swiss art dealer that has gripped the high-end art world.

France charges art dealer over stolen Picassos

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:00:33 +0200

An art dealer was charged in France on Monday with handling stolen goods in a case relating to the theft of Picasso artworks. Russian billionaire owner of Monaco football club Dmitri Rybolovlev bought two of the works for €27 million.

Picasso: US returns stolen artwork to France

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:53:55 +0200

The United States on Thursday returned to French authorities an oil painting by Pablo Picasso thought to be worth €15 million, that was reported stolen from a major Paris museum 14 years ago.

France returns seized Picasso painting to Spain

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:17:51 +0200

A €25 million Pablo Picasso painting, described as a “national treasure” in Spain was back in Spanish hands on Tuesday, after French customs officers had seized it from a boat in Corsica.

Banking family's Picasso seized on Corsica boat

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:32:40 +0200

A Picasso owned by the Santander Botín family and considered a cultural treasure by Spanish authorities who had barred it from being exported was seized from a boat docked at Corsica, French authorities said Tuesday.

French electrician guilty of hiding Picasso works

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:56:00 +0100

A French court Friday handed down a two-year suspended sentence to a former electrician and his wife, who hid 271 Picasso works in their garage for close to 40 years.

Stolen Paris Picasso sent to New York as '€30 gift'

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:03:00 +0100

A Picasso painting that was reported stolen in Paris 14 years ago has turned up in the United States after being sent across the Atlantic via the postal service disguised as a €30 Christmas present.

Doubts over Picasso's 271 'gifts' to Frenchman

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:03:00 +0100

A retired French electrician's claims that the artist Picasso gifted him 271 works of art were tested in court on Wednesday during an extraordinary trial in the south of France. The 75-year-old and his wife are accused of stealing the artworks.

Did a French couple steal 271 Picasso artworks?

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:36:00 +0100

Did a former electrician and his wife, who kept 271 works of art by Picasso in their garage for close to 40 years, steal the whole hoard? They insist the works were gifts from the painter, but a French court will decide.

Paris Picasso Museum re-opens after refit

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:16:00 +0100

After a five-year closure for what was supposed to be a two-year refurbishment, Paris's Picasso Museum re-opened Saturday with arguments over the €52 million project still reverberating.

Paris: Picasso museum mired in new controversy

Wed, 07 May 2014 15:57:00 +0200

The renowned Picasso museum has become embroiled in more controversy this week when local residents expressed their anger over the building of a new covered walkway, that they describe as "hideous". It comes after the museum's long-awaited reopening was delayed until September.

Paris: Picasso museum becoming a 'fiasco'

Mon, 05 May 2014 11:18:00 +0200

The son of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso has hit out at the French government after the culture minister put back the opening of the Picasso museum in Paris until September. Claude Picasso said he was "scandalised" and accused the French government of not caring.

Stolen art works 'crushed by rubbish truck'

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:12:06 +0200

Five paintings worth €100 million ($135 million) including works by Picasso, Matisse and Modigliano, could have been tossed into a rubbish bin and crushed according to one of the suspects.