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...unprecedented gathering to mull over those artistic ties. "This exhibition is something of a sequel to the meeting between Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee," said an elated Alexander Klee, heir and president of the foundation that bears his grandfather's name. Claude...
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The Age
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/show-gathers-both-heirs-to-marvel-at-picasso-klee-20100705-zwtv.html
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...lawns at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday -- and the people in the paintings will walk out of the frames. Inspired by Pablo Picasso’s fascination with Edgar Degas’ life and work, the exhibit pairs more than 100 pieces of art that show the influence Degas...
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Berkshire Eagle Online
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/berkshiresweek/ci_15368194?source=rss
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... MUNSTER, GERMANY - It will be a time to celebrate at the Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Münster in 2010. Germany’s only Picasso Museum will be ten years old. To mark the event, the Museum will be presenting three huge special exhibitions, on Joan Miró,...
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-03-03-23-54-02-pablo-picasso-graphics-museum-in-muenster-celebrates-with-miro-exhibition.html
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...of his artistic production. The series of engravings known as “Vollard Suite” is the result of a collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Ambroise Vollard, a close friend and fervent admirer of the Malaga-born painter. All of Picasso’s influences are represented...
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The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/2010/01/19/stories/2010011956990200.htm
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...- Kunst Haus Wien presents Picasso – Myths, Fables and Models, on view through July 5, 2009. With 120 graphic works by Pablo Picasso, taken from five creative periods spanning approximately a decade each, the exhibition leads us into Picasso’s universe of...
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Graphikmuseum_Pablo_Picasso_Munster.html
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...resources require only limited preparation, and items from around the house. Others may require a trip to the art store. Pablo Picasso Biographies for Kids Hey Kids, Meet Pablo Picasso -"Pablo Picasso was born on October 25,1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2585627/pablo_picasso_free_art_lesson_plans.html
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HOW can the dead and the war on climate change? The Guardian brings news of how Pablo Picasso is being welcomed into the movement’s green period:
Ever fancied owning an original Picasso? How about a signed one? And what if it was also something that
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Anorak
http://www.anorak.co.uk/230275/media/global-warming/pablo-picasso-forced-to-join-the-1010-climate-change-campaign.html
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KFLY Throbbit Party — Music by Johnson Unit, costume contest and more; benefit for FOOD for Lane County and Coffee for Canines, 8 p.m., the District. $15. (434-6553)
Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Wild Hog in the Woods — Acoustic, 8:30 p.m., Axe and Fiddle,
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The Register Guard
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rgentertainment/~3/6lL-6aAR0EM/story.csp
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...Harriss Life and Works of Picasso focuses more on Picassos art than on biographical information about the man. The DVD Pablo Picasso, from the Artists of the 20th Century series, is also available. This 50-minute documentary is a good choice for those interested...
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Bradenton Herald
http://www.bradenton.com/entertainment/story/1800047.html
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...Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. Picasso’s father, Don Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a painter and an art teacher at a local school. Picasso was initially taught to paint by his father. His family moved to La Coruna so his father...
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Finding Dulcinea
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/p/pablo-picasso.html
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The beginning. The middle. The end. It is always fascinating and instructive to observe the trajectory of an artist, any artist. Beginnings can be particularly instructive. Is he or she to the manor born? Or is this foray into art a sudden flight into
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/i-thought-of-drawing-a-square-british-arts-biggest-names-reveal-the-work-that-set-them-on-the-road-to-fame-1807171.html
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Tête de Femme by
Pablo Picasso
Among the most anticipated works to be offered this season
is Picasso's vibrant Tête de Femme from 1943, a wartime portrait of the artist's
muse and mistress Dora Maar. Painted in October 1943 during a period
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-10-14-23-08-41-picasso-and-degas-highlight-christies-impressionist-a-modern-november-art-sale.html
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...Fans of Pablo Picasso will get a chance to create their own masterpiece using the artist's techniques and styles during an event this month in Topeka. Washburn University will celebrate Picasso's birthday with an activity class Oct. 24 at the Mulvane Art Museum....
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49 News Topeka
http://ktka.com/news/2009/oct/08/pablo_picasso_event_planned_topeka/
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It’s not quite a Mediterranean setting. St Petersburg on Tampa Bay, Florida, has a whiff of the tropics, with balmy Gulf of Mexico tides home to the manatee and the pelican. But the Salvador Dali Museum, built to house the magnificent collection of the
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Le Monde Diplo
http://mondediplo.com/2009/10/15dali
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Cubism is known in the art world as being characterized by broken, chaotic and disjunctive forms that intersect at random angles and give the viewer the impression that they are viewing the subject from many different angles. It also played with the
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2230753/picasso_and_the_cubism_phase.html
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FORT WORTH — Consider it the big-bang theory of the 20th century. Actor-comedian Steve Martin’s play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, now at Circle Theatre, imagines a moment when two of the most dynamic forces of the last 100
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DFW.com
http://www.dfw.com/125/story/182281.html
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Horse cartoon in a book by Picasso for sale at Duke's auctioneers in Dorset Photograph: Duke's
A doodle of a horse in felt-tip pen that must have taken no more than seconds to produce is expected to sell for more than £20,000 at auction.
The sketch by
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The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/24/pablo-picasso-horse-doodle-auction
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NEW YORK - James Lord, an intimate of Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti whose biographies and memoirs provide a vivid picture of the artistic milieu of Montparnasse after World War II, died Sunday at his home in Paris. He was 86.
The cause was a
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Boston Globe
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=663268b131be43fef7ff2dfd219fb789
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is one of the most mind-blowing art documentaries I’ve ever seen. You actually get to witness Picasso paint twenty pieces before your eyes. It’s really astonishing:
Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel, his eyes blazing.
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Dangerous Minds
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/the_mystery_of_picasso/
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Pablo Picasso often pictured himself in the studio, and “Painter and Model III” (1970) is a late example in pastels. (Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artist Rights Society) -
Tickets: $12; $9, seniors and military; $8, students; $4.50, youth 6-17; free
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/23/drawing-lines-between-calder-miro-and-picasso/?arts
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Warning: what follows is very nearly about baseball.
Perhaps the Reader has heard that story, apocryphal or not, about the early century art-goer who, upon observing the less-than-representative figures of Mister Pablo Picasso’s paintings, said
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FanGraphs
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-long-hello-some-notes-on-luck/
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WILMINGTON, DE. - Acting U.S. Attorney David C.
Weiss and Tricia A. Gibbs, Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) Supervisory Special Agent announced today the unsealing of an indictment
charging Marcus Patmon with wire fraud in the attempted sale of a
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-08-08-00-38-17-fbi-report-of-attempted-sale-of-stolen-pablo-picasso-etching-now-recovered.html
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Steve Meadows of Palestine, Ill., grew up in the tiny southern Illinois town of Willow Hill. The schools he attended did not teach art and the people he knew rarely if ever talked about it. “Until I was 12, I thought an artist was somebody who was
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Terre Haute News
http://www.tribstar.com/features/local_story_210233426.html
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The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University will host an exhibit of work by Pablo Picasso.
“Picasso and the Allure of Language” features 60 works created by the legendary artist between 1900 and 1969, four years before his death at the age of 91. The
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Triangle Business Journal
http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_triangle/~3/k4bH4hoR96E/daily43.html
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Modern Masters, four-part peaktime arts documentary series for BBC1, to consider Picasso, Dali, Matisse and Warhol
Pablo Picasso: subject of the first in the BBC1 Modern Masters series
Photograph: Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images
BBC1 is to launch a new
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/09/bbc-television
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This article may be reproduced with appropriate attribution. See Copyright (below).
Art scholars and critics have confessed their inability to understand contemporary art in what they consider the incoherent era of “pluralism” and “postmodernism.”
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Vox
http://www.VoxEU.org/index.php?q=node/3732
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A new book set to hit bookstores and news agents features an intimate look at the acclaimed legendary artist Pablo Picasso. While there are several books available providing insight into the artist and his work there are none to date that give an
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1871327/pablo_picasso_intimate_look_at_his.html
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In London this week, Sotheby’s and Christie’s held their regular June auctions of Impressionist and Modern Art. Christie’s evening sale realised a total of £37m ($60.4m), while Sotheby’s brought in £33.5m. Although Sotheby’s revenue was lower, it was
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More Intelligent Life
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MoreintelligentlifeTotal/~3/0j6wxCDdcNk/hippie-picasso
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In London this week, Sotheby’s and Christie’s held their regular June auctions of Impressionist and Modern Art. Christie’s evening sale realised a total of £37m ($60.4m), while Sotheby’s brought in £33.5m. Although Sotheby’s revenue was lower, it was
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~3/e97aWWu9lwk/story01.htm
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LONDON.- Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist
& Modern Art tonight brought a total of £33,531,150/ US$55,323,044/
€39,479,519* – a figure comfortably within the pre-sale expectations of
£26,750,000-37,270,000 – and saw 23 of the 27 lots offered
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/sothebys-evening-sale-of-impressionist-and-modern-art-totaled-us-55-323-044.html
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...episode in decades of feuds and legal wrangling over the painterâs legacy. Dupontâs The Truth About Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso challenges the âwicked stepmotherâ image that has clung to Jacqueline, the painterâs last wife, since she prevented Picassoâs...
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6493473.ece
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The tragic legacy of one of the greatest figures in 20th-century art will be
highlighted this week in a Paris court where Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter
is defending the name of her brother, who killed himself by drinking bleach.
Marina Picasso is
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6493473.ece
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Pablo Picasso's castle: Château Vauvernargues: even the bathroom was painted by the artist
In the grounds of Château de Vauvenargues, near the Provençal town of
Aix-en-Provence, there is a simple mound of earth, covered in grass and
ringed by ivy.
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The Telegraph
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Detail: Picasso's first 'Homme à l?épée' which is estimated at £5m-£7m
A showdown between two musketeers is to be the art market's main attraction as Sotheby's
and Christie's shape up to beat not only each other, but also the economic
recession at
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/5483997/Art-Sales-in-London-battle-of-the-Picasso-musketeers.html
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Picasso’s full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. He was born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was keen on art from a very early age. According to
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Quazen
http://www.quazen.com/Reference/Biography/10-Facts-About-Pablo-Picasso.767683
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Picasso’s full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. He was born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was keen on art from a very early age. According to
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Quazen
http://www.quazen.com/Reference/Biography/10-Facts-About-Pablo-Picasso.767683
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Students in Jose Cavazos' class at University Park School in Salinas have brushed shoulders with artistic greatness.
The link appeared in the person of Sylvette David, known also as Lydia Corbett, a former model who posed for legendary Spanish painter
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The Californian
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20090605/LIFESTYLE/906050312/1024/LIFESTYLE
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LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening
Sale will take place at Christie’s on 23 June and will offer 46 works of art,
including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pablo
Picasso, Franz Marc, Joan Miró, Camille Pissarro
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/christies-auction-of-impressionist-and-modern-art.html
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Vienna, Austria - Starting at the end
of May, works from the Batliner Collection, which came to the Albertina as a
permanent loan in 2007, will be shown in a new presentation occupying 3,000
square metres of space. French Impressionism,
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/the-batliner-collection.html
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THE dining room smells strongly of wood smoke. Drops of paint cover the floor
upstairs. Pablo Picasso’s spirit haunts the imposing fortress in whose
grounds he is buried with Jacqueline, his last love.
Vauvenargues chateau in southern France will
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article6350372.ece
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After mounting definitive retrospectives of Pablo Picasso in 1980 and Henri Matisse in 1992, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with London’s Tate Modern and Paris’s Musée Picasso and Centre Pompidou, is now devoting another blockbuster
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Vanity Fair
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http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2003/02/picasso-matisse200302
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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.
Douglas Druick, who served as the curator for the wing's European modern art
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/05/10/Picasso-star-of-new-Chicago-institute-wing/UPI-31011241982927/
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Cast in order of appearance:
Performances: Now through May 10, New Repertory Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Mosesian Theater, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, Mass.
In , talented actor, comedian, writer, and SNL alum Steve Martin has fashioned a
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=52571
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It smells so bad, but yet it taste so good ! Does life push and more than pull best even alone with you, before it even gets to them best ? This is the best loosing smell, and the best more than winning taste even alone best !
We need more than just a
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Buzzle
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/does-life-need-new-wrecks-best-fit.html
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A Pablo Picasso painting of his young daughter and an Alberto Giacometti sculpture of a cat, each estimated to sell for $16 million to $24 million, failed to find buyers at auction on Tuesday as the art world struggles with the global financial crisis.
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Hindustan Times
http://www.hindustantimes.com/redir.aspx?ID=916e4b6f-97f7-4688-8586-d5b5694dc51e&SectionName=RSSFeed-news
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Copyright 2009, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
NEW YORK — A Pablo Picasso painting of his
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Elizabeth City Daily Advance
http://www.dailyadvance.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/US_Spring_Art_Auctions.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=1&cxcat=0
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Nothing new. At the start of the 18th century, Alexander Pope wrote a bad dream about household objects. "Unnumber'd throngs, on ev'ry side are seen/ Of bodies chang'd to various forms by Spleen / Here living Tea-pots stand, one arm held out/ One bent;
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/great-works-bather-opening-a-cabin-1928-pablo-picasso-1676689.html
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Page last updated at 17:44 GMT, Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:44 UK
Pablo Picasso died in 1973 in France at the age of 91
A Northampton paint business has won a six-year battle with the family of Pablo Picasso to name one of its ranges after the Spanish
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/8015364.stm
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THINK of Switzerland and you think of tennis champions, chocolate, cheese, pocket knives and watches.
But there's more to this land-locked country. It is home to some of Europe's best art, including the outstanding, private Rosengart Collection which
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Adelaide Now
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25365010-5006339,00.html?from=public_rss
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When you think of Roy Lichtenstein - he of the comic strip-style, dotted paintings - you don't ordinarily think of Matisse or Picasso. Nor do you think of classical sculpture.
But an enlightening new exhibit on Lichtenstein's process, at the Katonah
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LoHud.com
http://www.lohud.com/article/20090419/ENTERTAINMENT/904190330/1164/RSS07
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