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an abstract painting with black and white lines on the bottom half of it's image

Pablo Picasso. The Charnel House. Paris, 1944-45. Oil and charcoal on canvas. 6' 6 5/8" x 8' 2 1/2" (199.8 x 250.1 cm). Mrs. Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest (by exchange), and Mrs. Marya Bernard Fund in memory of her husband Dr. Bernard Bernard, and anonymous funds. 93.1971. © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting & Sculpture

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a painting of a person sitting in a chair

Image 18 of 26 from gallery of Pompidou Centre Hosts "Le Corbusier: The Measures of Man" Exhibition. Ubu IV. Image Courtesy of Centre Pompidou / Dist. RMN-GP / Philippe Migeat © FLC, ADAGP, Paris 2015

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an orange and black circular painting on a white wall

Cuban Painter Carmen Herrera sold her first painting at age 89. Now at age 101, she is widely exhibited and written about. Of the many pictures taken of her, those of her hands tell the essential story.

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a drawing of people sitting at a table

In the mid-1930s, some beautiful, high-quality books were published by a company called Limited Editions Club, which, according to Antiques Roadshow appraiser Ken Sanders, was “famous for re-issuing classics of literature and commissioning contemporary living artists to illustrate 1500-copy signed limited editions.” One of those books—the 1934 Pablo Picasso-illustrated edition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata—is, next to Henri Matisse’s 1935 edition of Joyce’s Ulysses, one of “the most sought…

black and white photograph of a dog laying on the floor in front of a window

Picasso's studio, Rue des Grand Augustins, Paris Picasso moved into a new studio in the attic of 7, rue des Grands-Augustins, which Dora Maar found for him in early 1937. Originally part of a grand 17th-century mansion, it had an intriguing history that appealed to Picasso's sense of irony, particularly as he was painting Guernica. The studio was said to be the setting for 'The Unknown Masterpiece', a short story written in 1837 by the famous French author, Honoré de Balzac. It describes an…

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