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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">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.</span></p>
