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Woman finds piece of art history on sale for $8

<p dir="ltr">It’s every thrifter’s dream to find something in an op shop that is being sold for far less than it’s worth. </p> <p dir="ltr">Many frequent their local thrift shops to find hidden treasures from designer brands with a much more reasonable price tag, finally giving them the chance to own a piece of luxury. </p> <p dir="ltr">One experienced thrift shopper has taken this dream to the next level, after she found a series of ceramic dishes in her local Salvation Army store that are a piece of art history.</p> <p dir="ltr">Nancy Cavaliere, a native New Yorker, has shared the story of her ultimate thrifting experience, which began on her way home from work in the summer of 2017.</p> <p dir="ltr">Nancy recalled stopping by the store and browsing for a while before resigning herself to defeat after not snagging a bargain. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I see nothing. I almost leave,” she said in her now-viral TikTok.</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqTY-WXJ4DM/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: block; 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height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqTY-WXJ4DM/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Nancy Cavaliere (@casacavaliere)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p dir="ltr">However, one more peruse past the china aisle was all Nancy needed for something to catch her eye, as she spied four unusual black plates with geometric faces hand-painted on them, with each plate marked with a $1.99 sticker. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I was going to buy them to make a tablescape,” Cavaliere said in the video. </p> <p dir="ltr">She bought the plates and left the store happy, and began to research her purchase once she got home. </p> <p dir="ltr">The plates, it turned out, belonged to Picasso’s “<em>Visage Noir</em>” series of hand-painted ceramics, produced in a pottery studio in the southern French town of Madoura in the 1940s. </p> <p dir="ltr">“When I tell you I googled this set… and saw how much they were worth and almost cried, passed out—I’m not lying,” Cavaliere said. </p> <p dir="ltr">Nancy then contacted several auction houses in New York, such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s, to have the plates appraised and authenticated. </p> <p dir="ltr">She was told they were each worth $3,000 to $5,000, and the following year, she sold three of her four plates at Sotheby’s for roughly $12,000, $13,000, and $16,000, respectively.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I was in my office at my lunch break watching this live auction go down, crying my eyes out,” she said. </p> <p dir="ltr">The fourth piece, which bears Picasso’s signature, Nancy decided to keep and store in a safe deposit box. </p> <p dir="ltr">Cavaliere plans to sell it in 20 years and give the money to her daughter, perhaps for a trip around Europe. </p> <p dir="ltr">“It’s crazy,” she said, “that I actually own something that Picasso signed for himself.” </p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image credits: Instagram </em></p>

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How even the young Pablo Picasso was already foreshadowing cubism

<p>At the end of the 19th century, long before starting to speak, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was already drawing – and he grew up “capturing” everything he saw with a pencil. </p> <p>Through several of the drawings and sketches in pencil made by the young man from Malaga during his formative years in A Coruña (1891-1895), in the North of Spain, we can see clear foreshadowing of what became a revolution that spanned the arts, the limits of perception, communication and expression. The young Picasso’s work was an early form of cubism, an artistic and stylistic movement that officially began in 1907 with the famous painting <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766">Les Demoiselles d'Avignon</a>(The Young Ladies of Avignon – in reference to an old and well-known street in Barcelona with brothels), painted by Picasso. </p> <h2>The fourth dimension (and beyond)</h2> <p>Picasso made cubism official in 1907, but it was something that he had already been able to imagine and begin to represent in some drawings from his time and apprenticeship in A Coruña: the ability to create a new style, a new artistic way of seeing and representing reality.</p> <p>This made it possible to go beyond the creative limit set by the painters of the Italian Renaissance. They had managed to represent the perfectly consolidated third dimension in a scientific way in Italian Quattrocento paintings – with the first dimension being height, the second width, and the third depth (thanks to the geometric rules of perspective).</p> <p>Picasso went further and achieved the representation of another three dimensions. He depicted a fourth dimenson – the ability to represent the back – or what is not perceived but what we know is there, for example, the face and the nape of a single character in the same plane.</p> <p>The fifth dimension (or “depth” dimension) is, for example, the representation of a bare chest with a heart, normally invisible under the epidermis, or the lung. This, in the Renaissance, would have been unthinkable – what was not seen was not represented.</p> <p>The sixth dimension is the imagined or “dreamlike” dimension. This is what is not there or cannot be seen but what we know exists in the imagination or we have seen in a dream (thus, Picasso was also several years ahead of surrealism).</p> <h2>Cubism before a mirror</h2> <p>A good example of these dimensions is the painting Girl before a Mirror, from 1932, which is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.</p> <p>In this portrait of his muse and lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter, we can see the fourth dimension thanks to the face in profile view and the same face in frontal-view. The horizontal black stripes on the left are Marie-Thérèse’s ribs and, therefore, they make reference to the fifth dimension, also present in the representation of a foreshadowed pregnancy in a circumference.</p> <p>The imagined (or dreamt) vision of Picasso – the sixth dimension – is portrayed in the way in which the mirror reflects an image back at the model of an ugly and decrepit woman who gazes at death. Picasso thus creates an exciting cubist piece with brilliant polychromy.</p> <p>All this exists and, according to Picasso, can be represented on a single canvas, board or two-dimensional paper.</p> <h2>From the beginning</h2> <p>Picasso was always talented and even unique. He never drew pictures like a child does – “not even when he was very young,” according to his own account. His viewpoint was always adult in nature.</p> <p>That is why it is so important to revisit Picasso’s drawings from his time in A Coruña (1891-1895). At first glance, they seem just children’s drawings like any others… but they are a lot more than that.</p> <p>It is necessary to examine them very carefully to truly notice how the birth of a genius came about and how the revolution that was cubism was born. How, from this point on, reality would be represented not always in a hyper-realistic way, as had more or less happened until then, but segmented into geometric, cubic, abstract planes. An incredible turn.</p> <h2>Indicative details</h2> <p>For example, in Double Profile Study of a Bearded Man, the geometric framing of the face is an analytical dissection that surpasses conventional academic work. At first glance, this is an ordinary exercise in the geometric composition of a male face, but the forcefulness of the lines used to mark proportions and the resolute manner of the dark spots (eyebrow, nose, and mouth) foreshadow elements that Picasso will explore further in later cubism.</p> <p>In Personaje con pipa (Person with a Pipe), the young Picasso incorporates the subtle white chalk technique to artistically accentuate the clothing of the character, as the crossing stripes on the lapel show. Pablo Ruiz was beginning to guide and lead his conceptual way of working towards the adult Picasso.</p> <p>The geometric compositional structure in Caserío gallego (Galician Homestead), elaborated with simple abstraction of space, is related with the rationalist exploration of forms that Picasso would undertake in the 20th century.</p> <p>In Houses on the Hill of Horta de Ebro, it becomes evident that the geometric and shadow play of this piece had already been foreshadowed in the previous homestead piece.</p> <p>Obviously, it cannot be said that there are glimpses of forms that point towards the Cubist revolution in all the drawings from A Coruña. </p> <p>But, if the previous pieces and some others are observed, we will see that something of what was to come was beginning to <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/73016">take shape in the Galician city</a>.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p> <p><em>This article originally appeared on <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-even-the-young-pablo-picasso-was-already-foreshadowing-cubism-203172" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>. </em></p>

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Steve Price clashes with Picasso protestors

<p>Steve Price has clashed with a climate protestor who glued his hand to a Picasso painting in Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria. </p> <p>Police were called to the gallery on Sunday after two protesters stuck themselves to Picasso’s <em>Massacre in Korea</em>, which was being exhibited as part of The Picasso Century program.</p> <p>Climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion claimed responsibility for the protest in a video of the incident, which was live-streamed on Facebook.</p> <p>The video showed two protesters unfurling a flag which read “Climate Chaos = War + Famine”.</p> <p>“We are in a climate, ecological crisis,” a female protester said with her left hand stuck to the painting.</p> <p>Appearing on The Project on Monday, one of the protesters – retired teacher Tony Gleeson – said the purpose of their actions was to raise awareness about climate change. </p> <p>However, Steve Price wasn't buying his arguments, and said the group's logic behind the protest was flawed. </p> <p>“Why wouldn’t you go and glue your silly hand to a power station rather than a painting in a gallery when that painting is worth so much money?” Price asked.</p> <p>Mr Gleeson insisted he was never going to damage the painting because it was protected by a perspex shield. </p> <div> <div id="aniBox"> <div id="aniplayer_AV62af35d851923c62777207b4-1665442990706"> <div id="aniplayer_AV62af35d851923c62777207b4-1665442990706gui"></div> </div> </div> </div> <p>“We knew beforehand that painting was covered and it was carefully planned, we knew that it was covered and we knew that there was no chance of it being damaged,” Mr Gleeson said.</p> <p>“You can frame that whichever way you want, and you will. It’s your job to be provocative like that but I’m not going to wear it.”</p> <p>Price said he was “just being honest” and “speaking for the majority of people who don’t want vandals sticking their hands on perplex covering a Picasso with glue”.</p> <p>“They would rather if you want to protest, go and do that somewhere else,” he added.</p> <p>Mr Gleeson said his radical group had plans to do exactly that over in coming weeks. </p> <p>“Yeah, great,” Price replied, sarcastically.</p> <p><em>Image credits: The Project</em></p>

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Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot were much more than Picasso’s muses or lovers. They are important artists in their own right

<p>Among Picasso’s partners were two formidable female artists: Dora Maar (1907–97) and Françoise Gilot (1921-).</p> <p>For a long time, these women were known primarily as his muse or lover, but further scrutiny of their extensive careers reveals that they were also his collaborators and innovative artists in their own right.</p> <p>Both women profoundly influenced Picasso, and both were exceptional talents.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/the-picasso-century/">The Picasso Century</a>, currently at the National Gallery of Victoria, offers a rare opportunity to see their work in Australia.</p> <h2>Charismatic and unconventional Dora Maar</h2> <p>In <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Dora_Maar_with_Without_Picasso.html?id=NR10QgAACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y">Dora Maar, with and without Picasso: a biography</a> (2000), Mary Ann Caws writes that Picasso first saw Dora Maar in Cafe les Deux Magots. Sitting alone, she was using a penknife to stab the tabletop between her gloved fingers, staining the white flowers of her gloves with blood.</p> <p>The pair were later introduced when Maar worked as the set photographer on Jean Renoir’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crime_of_Monsieur_Lange">The Crime of Monsieur Lange</a> (1936). They soon began a relationship.</p> <p>By all accounts, Maar was intelligent, charismatic and unconventional. When she met Picasso she had a successful and established career as a photographer.</p> <p>Surrealists had been dismissive of photography until Maar demonstrated its potential, creating some of the movement’s most powerful and important works.</p> <p>According to NGV’s Meg Slater, Gilot’s centrality to Surrealism arose through experimentation in her commercial photography, as well as her commitment to radical left-wing politics. She was remarkable for a woman at that time.</p> <p>Maar has been identified with the nine “<a href="https://useum.org/artwork/Weeping-Woman-Femme-en-pleurs-Pablo-Picasso-1937">Weeping Woman</a>” canvases, which depict how Picasso saw her, profoundly impacted by Guernica’s bombing during the Spanish Civil War.</p> <p>But these portraits have reductively characterised her as a volatile and emotional woman. Maar <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/15/dora-maar-picassos-weeping-woman">said</a> “all [of Picasso’s] portraits of me are lies”.</p> <p>Maar often photographed Picasso during their relationship, most notably in creating his 1937 anti-war work Guernica. She was represented within the painting as a figure holding a light.</p> <p><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dora-maar-revealed-picassos-muse-guernica-show-1244849">According to</a> Musée Picasso-Paris’ curator Emilie Bouvard, Maar “did not simply document Picasso painting the great mural. In fact, her Surrealist photography influenced the work itself”.</p> <p>Renowned for moving from one lover to another, Picasso left Maar for Françoise Gilot – notoriously the only woman to leave him.</p> <h2>Critically reflective Françoise Gilot</h2> <p>Gilot had an extraordinary life. <a href="https://www.scrippscollege.edu/news/arts-and-culture/an-artist-in-her-own-right-francoise-gilot-turns-99">Before 25</a> she had lived through the Nazi occupation of Paris, studied dance under Isadora Duncan’s protégée and taken “morning walks with Gertrude Stein”.</p> <p>She achieved expertise in ceramics well before she met Picasso. It was during their almost 10-year relationship that he took an interest in ceramics, eventually producing <a href="http://ceramic-studio.net/ceramic/pottery/francoise-gilot/">3,500</a> works.</p> <p>Gilot was physically and psychologically abused by Picasso and lived with very little autonomy throughout their relationship. Many of her works testify to this.</p> <p><a href="https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/519039925785327682/">The Earthenware</a> (1951) shows a window with bars. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/t-magazine/francoise-gilot-picasso.html">Paloma asleep in her crib</a> (1950) depicts windows without views. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/impressionist-and-modern-art-online-2/francoise-gilot-adam-forcing-eve-to-eat-an-apple-i">Adam forcing Eve to Eat an Apple</a> (1946) is an image of coercion with a disturbing likeness to Picasso and Gilot.</p> <p>In 1953 she left with their children, Claude and Paloma. Outraged, Picasso began to sabotage her artistic career. In 1964 she published a memoir, <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/life-with-picasso?variant=9511301382196">Life with Picasso</a>, following his three legal challenges to stop it.</p> <p>She is unusual for writing critically reflective pieces on her own work, situating her as well ahead of her time.</p> <h2>The female gaze</h2> <p>The “<a href="http://femalegaze.com.au/reviews-2/">female gaze</a>” refers to the way female artists express their own unique experience of living in the world as women. Gendered experiences are only one influence among many, but they profoundly impact any creative work.</p> <p>My first impression of Gilot’s female gaze is that she takes a micro view of the world around her.</p> <p>Her 1940s still life works take the domestic and emphasise her seclusion at that time (Picasso had isolated her from family and friends).</p> <p> </p> <p>She finds inspiration in the small things, the domestic, rather than racing to the monumental or heroic.</p> <p>According to Gilot in an interview in <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/life-after-picasso-franoise-gilot">Vogue</a>, she met Picasso in 1943 when he brought a bowl of cherries to her table.</p> <p>This may be referenced in Plate of cherries and a Spanish knife (1948). Gilot described this painting as “the most ordinary, mundane and non-poetic of things” and offers that she chose the domestic deliberately in an act of resistance to expectations that she be a housewife.</p> <p>From this painting we can glimpse her her feminism and her female perspective.</p> <p>Maar’s portraits and advertising images resist objectifying the female figure, directing viewers with the subject’s gaze to something just out of sight.</p> <p>While often erotic, they don’t present women as objects. The shadow in <a href="https://artblart.com/tag/dora-maar-assia/">Assia</a> (1934) emphasises and celebrates both her form and power.</p> <p>Maar’s iconography emphasises the female. She incorporates wavy locks of hair, spiders and manicured nails in hair oil advertising images such as <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-voraciousness-and-oddity-of-dora-maars-pictures">Publicity Study</a> (Pétrole Hahn) (1934-1935), face cream advertisement Les années vous guettent (The Years are Waiting for You) (1932) and surrealist images such as Untitled (Hand-Shell) (1934).</p> <p>Maar and Gilot were creative collaborators, not just muses of Picasso.</p> <p>Before and after him, their artistic achievements – and exceptional volumes of creative work – locate them as important artists. These include Maar’s retrospective at the <a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Les-annees-vous-guettent/FD4C9067B246F7CF">Tate</a> (2019-20), and Gilot’s many <a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Francoise-Gilot/BE82663B3D59B3C5/Exhibitions">exhibitions</a>.</p> <p>Across their long careers their output straddled a variety of media and styles, each with her own female gaze.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p> <p><em>This article originally appeared on <a href="https://theconversation.com/dora-maar-and-francoise-gilot-were-much-more-than-picassos-muses-or-lovers-they-are-important-artists-in-their-own-right-190750" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>. </em></p>

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Imaging reveals Picasso’s secret

<div> <div class="copy"> <p>Pablo Picasso painted over another work done by an unknown Barcelona artist in order to create one of his most famous “blue period” works, new research reveals.</p> <p>In findings released at the <a rel="noopener" href="http://meetings.aaas.org/" target="_blank">American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting</a> in Austin, Texas, a team of Canadian researchers reveal that “La Miséreuse accroupie” (The Crouching Woman) is painted on top of a landscape done by another hand.</p> <p>Picasso rotated the original painting by 90 degrees and incorporated some of its elements into the background of his masterpiece.</p> <p>The discovery was first made by Sandra Webster-Cook, senior conservator at the <a rel="noopener" href="https://ago.ca/" target="_blank">Art Gallery of Ontario</a>, which owns the 1902 painting. Looking closely at the surface, she noted unusual textures and colours peeking through cracks in the painting’s surface.</p> <p>The piece was then subjected to a non-invasive technique called X-ray radiography to reveal the hidden landscape beneath.{%recommended 4985%}</p> <p>That, however, was not the only surprise that lurked under the crouching woman. John Delaney, senior imaging scientist at Canada’s National Gallery of Art, then subjected the painting to another non-invasive procedure, called infrared reflectance hyperspectral imaging, which detects the varying transparency of paint layers.</p> <p>Doing so, he found images of a disc and an arm hidden beneath the surface. The arm turned out to be particularly interesting – it was an exact replica of one Picasso painted in a 1902 watercolour called “Femme assise”.</p> <p>Which painting came first, however, the oil or the watercolour remains – like the creator of the buried landscape – unknown. But perhaps not for long.</p> <p>“We now are able to develop a chronology within the painting structure to tell a story about the artist’s developing style and possible influences,” says Webster-Cook.</p> <em>Image credits: Getty Images         <!-- Start of tracking content syndication. Please do not remove this section as it allows us to keep track of republished articles --> <img id="cosmos-post-tracker" style="opacity: 0; height: 1px!important; width: 1px!important; border: 0!important; position: absolute!important; z-index: -1!important;" src="https://syndication.cosmosmagazine.com/?id=20077&amp;title=Imaging+reveals+Picasso%E2%80%99s+secret" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> <!-- End of tracking content syndication -->          </em></div> <div id="contributors"> <p><em>This article was originally published on <a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/imaging-reveals-picassos-secret/">cosmosmagazine.com</a> and was written by Andrew Masterson.</em></p> </div> </div>

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Picasso’s daughter exchanges famous artworks for a tax bill settlement

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The French Government has negotiated a unique deal with Pablo Picasso’s daughter, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maya Ruiz-Picasso, to settle an inheritance tax bill. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">France is set to receive six paintings, two sculptures and a sketchbook by the world-famous artist, as French finance minister Bruno Le Maire announced during a press conference at the PIcasso Museum. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It is an honour for our country to welcome these new artworks by Picasso. They will enrich and deepen our cultural heritage,” Le Maire wrote on Twitter.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le Maire presented one of the artworks at the press conference: the 1938 painting called </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Child with a Lollipop Sitting Under a Chair</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Picasso’s grandson Olivier Widmaier-Picasso, the painting depicts his mother Maya as a child. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">French citizens have been permitted to settle debts similar to Maya’s with a payment of profitable art, books, and collectibles of national importance since 1968. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The collective total of the nine objects given by Picasso's daughter was not publicly disclosed. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to France’s culture minister Roselyne Bachelot, the artworks will enter the national collections at Paris’s Musée Picasso in 2022, and will be exhibited as a whole to the public in the spring of 2022.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It is with deep emotion that I come to celebrate the entry into the national collections of the works,” said Bachelot, who called the donation an “exceptional event.”</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit: French Ministry of Culture</span></em></p>

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7 facts you didn’t know about Picasso

<p>Pablo Picasso had a monumental impact on art. The Cubist movement co-founder was arguably the most famous artist of the 20th century.</p> <p><strong>1. His full name</strong></p> <p>Pablo Picasso’s full name actually has 23 words in it. He was baptised Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso.</p> <p><strong>2. He nearly died at birth</strong></p> <p>When Picasso was born, he was such a weak baby that the midwife thought he was a stillborn so she left him on a table so she could attend to his mother. Picasso’s uncle, who was a doctor, saved his life after blowing smoke into his face prompting Picasso to cry.</p> <p><strong>3. His first drawing</strong></p> <p>When Picasso was nine-years-old he completed his first painting <em>Le picador. </em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="400" height="513" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/44685/picasso-in-text.jpg" alt="Picasso In Text"/></p> <p>His first major painting as an “academic” is<em> First Communion.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="400" height="575" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/44684/picasson-in-text-2.jpg" alt="Picasson In Text 2"/></p> <p><strong>3. His first job</strong></p> <p>Picasso’s first job was in Paris with art dealer Pere Menach. Picasso was payed 150 francs per month.</p> <p><strong>4. He was a suspect when the Mona Lisa was stolen</strong></p> <p>In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. The police brought in Picasso’s friend Guillaume Apollinaire for questioning. Apollinaire highlighted Picasso as a suspect and so he was also called in to be interviewed. Both were later released.</p> <p><strong>5. Signing his work</strong></p> <p>Picasso started signing his work by the beginning of 1901. He only signed his last name.</p> <p><strong>6. He was a poet </strong></p> <p>Between 1935 and 1959, Picasso wrote over 300 poems. The poems were mostly untitled except for when he would irregularly include a date and location of where it was written.</p> <p><strong>7. His last words</strong></p> <p>It is believed the artist’s last words were, “Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink anymore.”</p>

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12 rare photos of famous artists in their studios

<p>For most artists, their workshop is like their home. It has to have the right amount of space yet still inspire as much creativity as possible. We’ve stumbled across these rare photographs of famous artists in their studios. Take a look in our gallery above, you may be surprised at some of their spaces!</p> <ol> <li>Pablo Picasso, 1956 (with Brigitte Bardot)</li> <li>Salvador Dali, 1939</li> <li>Jackson Pollock, 1950</li> <li>Frida Kahlo, ca. 1951</li> <li>David Hockney, 1963</li> <li>Andy Warhol, 1965</li> <li>Claude Monet, c. 1924</li> <li>Roy Lichtenstein, c. 1990</li> <li>Georgia O’Keeffe, 1960</li> <li>Auguste Rodin, 1902</li> <li>Francis Bacon, c. 1970s</li> <li>Edvard Munch, 1943</li> </ol> <p>Tell us in the comments, have you ever been to any of these artists’ studios?</p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><a href="/entertainment/art/2016/05/computer-creates-a-new-rembrandt-painting/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Computer creates a new Rembrandt painting</strong></em></span></a></p> <p><a href="/entertainment/art/2016/04/the-highest-selling-artworks-of-all-time/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>The highest selling artworks of all time</strong></em></span></a></p> <p><a href="/entertainment/art/2016/01/classic-art-reimagined-in-modern-times/"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Artists reimagines classical paintings in modern times</span></em></strong></a></p>

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