
The 4th edition of the India Art Fair kicked off in the national capital on Wednesday. The four-day art extravaganza will have works by the masters and contemporaries alike. Works by Picasso, MF Husain, Tyeb Mehta and SH Raza will share space with contemporaries like Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta, Vivan Sundaram and Sudarshan Shetty. ...

11:25 PM, Jan 25, 2012

San Francisco: Police are on the hunt for a man who walked into a San Francisco art gallery, grabbed a valuable pencil drawing by Pablo Picasso off the wall and fled in a waiting taxicab. Police on Tuesday said the drawing, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, was taken from the Weinstein Gallery near Union Square. The gallery says Picasso created the one-of-a-kind drawing titled "Tete de Femme" in 1965....

12:07 PM, Jul 06, 2011

Paris: A sensual 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso of his young mistress Marie-Therese Walter which captures his romantic obsession with her went on display at Sotheby's in Paris ahead of an auction next month. It was the first public showing in Europe in some 80 years of "La Lecture," or "Reading," an erotic and brightly colored depiction of the voluptuous Marie-Therese sleeping nude in an armchair, her head thrown back...

12:47 PM, Jan 20, 2011

Madrid: Twenty-eight art works, including a few by Pablo Picasso, which were stolen last month from near Madrid have been found, officials said. The art works are valued at 2.7 million euros (USD 3.5 million). Among the works stolen was a sculpture by Eduardo Chillida worth 800,000 euros (USD 1 million), as well as pieces by Fernando Botero, Pablo Picasso, Antoni Tapies and Julio Gonzalez. The art pieces that were...

10:50 AM, Dec 21, 2010

Paris: Nearly 300 works by Pablo Picasso worth tens of million euros laid untouched for decades in a cardboard box in the garage of a retired electrician in the south of France who said on Friday they were a gift from from the wife of the late artist. The claims by retired electrician Pierre Le Guennec came as members of the Picasso Administration which represents his heirs and runs his...

11:00 AM, Nov 30, 2010

A masterpiece from Picasso's
"blue period" sold for 34.7 million pounds ($51.8 million) at a major auction of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's in London. ...

01:55 PM, Jun 25, 2010

It worth 500 million euros ($ 620.8 million) from a Paris museum, French police and prosecutors said on Thursday. ...

07:25 PM, May 20, 2010

Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" soared to more than $ 106 mn at Christie's on Tuesday. ...

07:59 AM, May 05, 2010

Two Van Goghs and a pencil drawing by Modigliani were among the work. ...

11:58 AM, Dec 07, 2009

The sketchbook was valued at 7-10 mn euros ($9.7 million-$13.9 million). ...

03:43 AM, Jun 10, 2009

Jamil Naqsh is displaying his collection in India or the first time. ...

09:08 PM, Sep 22, 2008

3 robbers entered the museum in broad daylight and made off with the prints. ...

08:53 AM, Jun 13, 2008

Nagpur: Defending champions Australia dished out a clinical display to outplay Trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand and notch up a comprehensive seven-wicket victory with 16 overs to spare in a group A game of the World Cup here on Friday. Ricky Ponting's boys raised their game and proved to be a far superior side in each and every department. This was Ponting's 24th consecutive victory as Australian captain in World Cups....

04:59 PM, Dec 21, 2007

Hollywood films can lend glamor to art crimes, but just how real is our perception of the suave, charming, art thief? ...

12:28 PM, Mar 02, 2007

Police say two of Pablo Picasso's works have disappeared from the house of his granddaughter in Paris. ...

01:07 PM, Mar 01, 2007