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1. Picasso's 'The Women of Algiers' Auctioned for Record Price This spring, Picasso's painting "The Women of Algiers (Version O)" was auctioned off at Christie's in New York for a record price of $179.4 million. The painting was the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, breaking the record previously held by Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud," which sold for $142.4 million. The painting was part of a series of works that Picasso created in 1954-55. 2. Picasso's Blue Period Works to be Showcased in Major Exhibition This summer, the Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting a major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's Blue Period works. The exhibition will feature some of Picasso's most iconic works from the early 1900s, including "The Old Guitarist," "The Blue Room," and "The Blind Man's Meal." The exhibition will also include a selection of related works by other artists, including Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, and Vincent van Gogh. 3. Picasso Painting Found in Attic Fetches $28 Million at Auction In May of this year
Photographer and filmmaker Claude Picasso, the youngest son of Pablo Picasso, died in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 24 at the age of seventy-six. The news was announced by his lawyer, Jean-Jacques Neuer, who did not reveal a cause of death. Claude’s mother was the French painter Françoise Gilot, who died earlier this year at the age of 101 and was also mother to his younger sister, Paloma Picasso, now the Cubist giant’s only surviving child. Having been cut off by his famous father after Gilot left him—she was by the artist’s admission the only woman ever to do so—Claude as a young man sued to
Between 1910 and 1911, Arthur Dove (1880–1946) made several abstract paintings, becoming the first American artist to do so. Calling them “extractions,” he mined the shapes and colors of nature, rendering its material content as a kind of afterthought, more hallucinatory than real, more suggested than insistently present. The works were never shown during his lifetime, but they were known to Alfred Stieglitz, who exhibited him regularly. He noted that Dove arrived at nonobjective art uninfluenced by Matisse, Picasso, and even Cézanne, all of whom were featured at 291, the photographer’s Fifth