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Pablo Picasso's Fillette au bateau, Maya from 1938, once owned by Gianni Versace, will be sold at Sotheby's in London on March 1st with an estimate of $15 million.

David M. Solinger's 90-lot collection estimated at $100 million to be sold at Sotheby's in dedicated sale, in November of 2022

Sotheby’s Hong Kong is eager to capitalize on demand for Picasso in Asia. “Interest in Picasso has been surging among Asian collectors,” says Felix Kwok, Head of Modern Art for Sotheby’s in Asia.

In recent years, value in the Picasso market has migrated toward a distinct period in the master’s production surrounding his affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, the young woman who became his obsession for the better part of a decade.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was gifted a cast of Pablo Picasso’s Tête de femme (Fernande) by Leonard Lauder. The well-known bronze head of Fernande is being sold to fund new acquisitions

Sotheby’s has unveiled another Claude Monet work for the March 2nd sale in London. The late waterlilies work from 1914-1917 was purchased by Sotheby’s former owner Alfred Taubman in 1978 before he owned the auction house.

On March 1st, Christie’s will resume its relay sales with an event linking the firm’s Shanghai headquarters with London selling works in the 20/21 format with the addition of a traditional London sale focused around the Art of Surrealism.

It’s hard not to feel overwhelmed walking out of Acquavella gallery’s career-spanning show of Picasso’s drawings. It’s also hard not to feel inspired and even covetous of the work and it’s immediacy. Although none of the drawings in the show are for sale, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a path from Acquavella to acquiring

Acquavella Gallery’s seminal show of Picasso drawings features some of the most significant works on paper from the artist’s entire body of work but it is also, in part, a record of some recent auction sales for Picasso works on paper.

The understated title of Acquavella gallery’s overwhelming show of drawings by Pablo Picasso belies the impressive feat behind the exhibition. Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing was assembled as a collaboration between Acquavella and Olivier Berggruen with the help of art historian Christine Poggi