Picasso Sells for $139.4 Million in a Sagging Art Market The blue-chip collection of Emily Fisher Landau sold at Sotheby’s on Wednesday night for a total of $406.4 million.
Hey Dad, Can You Help Me Return the Picasso I Stole? A painting that went missing in 1969 turned up at a museum’s doorstep before the F.B.I. could hunt it down. No one knew how or why — until now.
Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101 An accomplished painter (and memoirist) in her own right, she was long his lover until she did what no other mistress of his had ever done: She walked out.
With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum The Australian comedian turns curator in a show about Picasso’s complicated legacy. But it’s women artists the exhibition really shortchanges.
Biden Heads to Japan for the G7 Also, global heat to rise over the next five years. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.