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It s safe to say Pablo Picasso is one of the world s most legendary artists. As one of the creators of Cubism, his works remain celebrated in museums and galleries across the globe. Here are eight facts about the iconic artist.
1. Pablo Picasso s real name was Pablo Ruiz.
Well, actually Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. The Spanish artist adopted his mother s Italian surname because he thought it suited him better. Here s how he explained it to Hungarian artist George Brassaï: [Picasso] was stranger, more resonant, than Ruiz . Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain. Picasso is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance. Can you imagine me calling myself Ruiz? Pablo Ruiz? Diego-José Ruiz? Or Juan-Népomucène Ruiz?
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A Netflix four-part documentary is shining a light on the unsolved infamous half a billion dollar heist of artwork from a Boston museum.
This is a Robbery recounts the story of the world s biggest art theft, which saw 13 paintings, estimated to be worth $500million, taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on 18 March 1990.
Two thieves disguised as Boston police officers talked their way into the museum at 1:20am, handcuffed and blindfolded security with duct tape before snatching Storm on the Sea of Galilee - Rembrandt’s only seascape - and The Concert, by Johannes Vermeer – which is valued at $250 million, and remains the most valuable stolen object in the world.
Dutch police arrest suspect in theft of Van Gogh, Hals paintings
A man has been accused of stealing two paintings, worth millions, from museums shut down during the pandemic. Neither of the famous artworks has been recovered.
Van Gogh was living with his parents when he painted the gardens of the parsonage in Neunen, where his father was pastor
Dutch police arrested a 58-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums in the Netherlands last year.
Police said the man was held at his home in the central town of Baarn on suspicion of stealing Van Gogh s 1884 painting Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam where it was on loan from the Groninger Museum in March 2020; and Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer, painted by Hals in 1626, from the Museum Hofje Van Aerden in Leerdam in August of last year.