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New York auction could smash art world record

Christie's auction house is hoping to set new world records with a Picasso valued at $140 million and a Giacometti worth $130 million, as New York's spring auction season kicks off May 5.

Pablo Picasso's colorful "The Women of Algiers (Version 0)," depicting a scene from a harem, will be up for grabs when Christie's puts it on the auction block May 11.

Miro at play with women, birds, stars in Istanbul show

It is not every artist who could see a woman's hat in a red farmyard faucet, but works on display in Istanbul show the 20th century Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro in a playful mood in later life.

"Women, Birds, Stars" at the Sak?p Sabanc? Museum features 125 paintings, prints, sculptures, tapestries and ceramics, including loans from the Miro family's personal collection.

Picasso painting stolen in 2001, found

A Picasso painting stolen from the Georges Pompidou center in Paris in 2001 was discovered in the United States, where it was sent as… a Christmas gift, according to New York’s judicial authorities.

 

The painting is valued at many a million dollars, according to the Brooklyn D.A. It is estimated at 30 million euros.

 

Recovered Matisse shown in Venezuela after mystery theft

A painting by Henri Matisse stolen more than a decade ago in Caracas and later recovered in an FBI sting is on display again in the Venezuelan capital.
      
The "Odalisque in Red Pants", worth around $3 million, was exhibited Tuesday for the first time in more than a decade at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
      

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