We recently shared some bright paintings at our galleries. This time, we’d like to bring you illuminating illustrations. (All from The Manhattan Rare Book Company, in Gallery #90.)
Illuminating Illustrations
All posts tagged: pablo picasso
"Like a Child:" Whimsical Original Picasso Ceramic Face Plate
In 2010, Christie’s sold Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” for $106.5 million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Needless to say, Picasso’s work fetches some of the highest prices in the art world. Can you imagine eating off one of them? Most people know Picasso as one of the […]
An Early Picasso Drawing Discovered
Reported in Antiques & Fine Arts, staff members of The Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain, removed the cardboard backing of Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (1896) by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) during a recent restoration to find a never-before-seen charcoal portrait by the artist. Reyes Jimenez, the museum’s head of restoration, believes the recently discovered drawing […]
The Hidden Picasso
In honor of Pablo Picasso’s birthday today, Oct. 25, we examine the open secret of one of his most celebrated paintings, which also happens to be one of our personal favorites. Picasso was only 22 in 1904 when he is believed to have painted this revealing portrait of a woman ironing, her skeletal frame bent […]