Modern art

Picasso painting sells for $179M; Giacometti sculpture $141M

A painting by Pablo Picasso and a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti are the two priciest piecs of painting and sculpting ever sold at an auction.

Yesterday’s Sotheby’s Impressionist era auction marked an amazing sale. Vincent Van Gogh’s “L’ Allée Des Alyscamps” was sold for 66.3 million USD, while it was expected to reach just 40 million.

A Vincent Van Gogh painting fetched more than $66 million at a New York auction on May 5, the most paid for a work by the Dutch post-impressionist artist since 1998.

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.

An exhibition of more than 50 works of the Spanish art genius Pablo Picasso opened on Thursday at the National Museum in the country's old royal capital, Cetinje.

The event has been hailed as one of the most important on the Montenegrin art scene in a long time.

The exhibition "Graphic art masterpieces. Henri Matisse" premiered at the Bucharest Noblesse Palace and can be visited until June 7, the Romanian organizers announced at a recent press conference.

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BELGRADE - An exhibition entitled Art Tour, which is made up of highest quality reproductions of the masterpieces included in the collection of the National Museum in Belgrade, will be opened at Nikola Tesla Airport on March 27.

A French court on March 20 handed down a two-year suspended sentence to a former electrician and his wife, who hid 271 Picasso works in their garage for close to 40 years.
      
The court in the French Riviera town of Grasse found Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec guilty of possessing stolen goods, after a trial that made headlines in France and abroad.
      

Pablo Picasso’s pottery artworks are being auctioned off by Sotheby’s in London, March 18. Vases, plates, bowls and others, numbering more than 100 pieces of art, all hand-crafted and painted by the Spanish painter will be auctioned for prices ranging between 2,000 and 30,000 UK pounds.

Turkish police seized an oil painting in the northern province of Tokat on March 6 that was suspected of being a masterpiece of the world renowned Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh.