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Pablo Picasso: The Life Story You May Not Know
By Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News
On 5/19/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
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Pablo Picasso was an unrivaled titan of 20th-century art. He influenced and collaborated with such fellow creative geniuses as Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, and the works of his Blue Period and his Rose Period are familiar to even the most casual museum-goer.
In politics, Picasso took an unwavering stand against fascism in his homeland. After a visit in 1934, he vowed not to return to Spain so long as the dictator General Francisco Franco was alive, and he never went home again. In joining the French Communist Party, he declared: I have always been an exile, now I am one no longer; until the time when Spain may finally receive me, the French Communist Party has opened its arms to me.
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Rare Botticelli portrait sold for record $92 million
Sotheby s in New York auctioned off a 15th-century masterpiece, the Botticelli painting Young Man Holding a Roundel, smashing the record price for the artist.
The painting was the highlight of the annual Masters Week sales series in New York
The art world held its breath as Sandro Botticelli s
Young Man Holding a Roundel went on auction at Sotheby sin New York on January 28.
The painting that has been shown in leading museums worldwide over the past decades was valued at about €66 million ($80 million).
Sotheby s said the final price, including fees and commissions, was $92.2 million after it sold under the hammer for $80 million.
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