PICASSO'S "GARCON A LA PIPE" SETS NEW AUCTION PRICE OF $104 MILLION DOLLARS
Pablo Picasso 1905 painting "Garcon a la Pipe" sold for $104 million dollars on May 5, 2004 at New York's Sotheby's shattering the record for an auctioned painting. (UPI/Ezio Petersen)
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PALM DESERT, Calif., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The Heather James Fine Art gallery in Palm Desert, Calif., has announced plans for a major Pablo Picasso exhibition, starting next month.
PARIS, June 9 (UPI) -- French authorities are trying to figure out who took a Pablo Picasso sketchbook worth millions of dollars from a Paris museum.
MARSEILLE, France, May 24 (UPI) -- The mayor of the French village of Vauvenargues says a chateau once used by famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is set to open to the general public.
CHICAGO, May 10 (UPI) -- The works of famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso will be prevalent in the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, an art curator says.
BEIJING, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A Chinese artist said her vegetable recreations of famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and others have sold for up to $2,000.
PARIS, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The chairman of the Society of Friends of the Louvre has likened the visitors flocking to a new Pablo Picasso exhibit at the Paris museum to a "cancer."
PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Suspected con artist Marcus Patmon stole two Pablo Picasso etchings from a gallery in Palm Beach, Fla., police allege.
SAO PAULO, July 21 (UPI) -- A 30-year-old Sao Paulo man has been arrested in connection with the theft of an engraving by Pablo Picasso from the Estacao Pinacoteca museum, police said.
SYDNEY, June 19 (UPI) -- Pablo Picasso's 1954 abstract painting "Sylvette" was sold in Sydney for $6.5 million, setting a record for art sold at auction in Australia.