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British fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has transformed how visitors experience Pablo Picasso's art at Auckland Art Gallery, using color and mood to reveal sides of the master most people have never seen. The exhibition features over 80 works from Paris and runs through February 2027.
A Milwaukee landlord cleaning out a vacant apartment discovered an original Picasso etching hanging behind a door. The artwork had been stolen from a local gallery eight years earlier.
New Zealand art lovers will finally see Picasso's masterpieces up close when more than 80 original works arrive in Auckland this October. It's the first major Picasso exhibition in the country in over three decades.
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A Milwaukee landlord discovered a $50,000 Picasso etching gathering dust in a vacant apartment bedroom. The artwork had been brazenly stolen from a local gallery in broad daylight back in 2018.
A $50,000 Picasso print stolen in 2018 turned up in the dustiest place imaginable: a vacant Milwaukee apartment. The discovery brings closure to a gallery owner whose late partner spent six years keeping the investigation alive.
A landlord cleaning out a vacant apartment discovered a dusty framed print on the wall that turned out to be a $50,000 Picasso stolen eight years earlier. Thanks to an alert antique dealer and honest strangers, the rare artwork is heading home.
A rare Picasso print stolen from a Milwaukee gallery in 2018 came home after a landlord discovered it gathering dust in an evicted tenant's apartment. The artwork, one of only 30 signed by Picasso, was identified by its original gallery sticker still on the back.
A police raid on suspected drug dealers accidentally uncovered a stolen Picasso painting worth $12 million. The portrait of the artist's famous muse was found alongside cash, drugs, and luxury goods in a house near Paris.
A Parisian sales engineer who bought a charity raffle ticket on a whim over the weekend just won an original Picasso painting worth $1 million. The raffle raised $14 million for Alzheimer's research while giving one lucky art lover the prize of a lifetime.
A Paris engineer who bought a last-minute raffle ticket won a rare Picasso painting worth over $1 million while raising $12 million for Alzheimer's research. The charity raffle sold 120,000 tickets across 52 countries, turning small donations into a major medical breakthrough fund.
A charity raffle in Paris is giving people the chance to win a 1941 Picasso painting for just €100, with proceeds funding Alzheimer's research. If all 120,000 tickets sell, the initiative could raise €12 million for medical breakthroughs.