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The grandson of a Jewish woman whose Pablo Picasso painting was stolen by Nazis during World War II will receive $ 6.5 million from American who later bought the work from a gallery. Read more!
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At the extreme left is a bull, which symbolizes brutality and darkness, according to Picasso. At the center, a horse wounded by a spear most likely represents the Spanish people. At the center on top, an exploding light bulb possibly refers to air warfare or to evil coming from above (and putting out the light of reason). Corpses and dying figures fill the foreground: a woman with a dead child at the left, a dead warrior with a broken sword (from which a flower sprouts) at the center, a weeping woman and a figure falling through a burning building at the right. The distortion of these figures expresses the inhumanity of the event. To suggest the screaming of the horse and of the mother with the dead child, Picasso transformed their tongues into daggers.
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After World War II, Picasso lived in the South of France until his death on April 8, 1973. Picasso had two wives and four children, one of whom is Paloma Picasso, the jewelry designer.
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In the wake of completing Guernica, Picasso embarked on his Weeping women series. This exhibition will ... bring together a number of versions of the Weeping woman to join the much loved and iconic painting in the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Picasso hated to be alone when he wasn't working. In Paris, in addition to having a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse Quarters, including Andre Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Gertrude Stein and others, he usually maintained a number of mistresses in addition to his wife or primary partner.
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Provenance Analysis – is the piece recorded in any Picasso reference books? Does it have the correct gallery labels (Vollard, Kahnweier, Weill, etc.)? Are they a recognized expert on Picasso or some appraiser who knows little? Who originally owned it? Are the letters of authentication with it real? Often it is easier to fake the authentication papers than the work itself.
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