Picasso

New York有数の美術品オークションハウスを含む購入者を騙したとして起訴され、法廷で謝罪した父娘。 New Jerseyの父娘は、Andy Warhol、Banksy、Pablo Picassoといった著名な芸術家の偽造絵画をアートギャラリーやオークションハウスに購入させるための、長年にわたる偽造計画を運営したことについて有罪を認めた。 連邦検察官は、Erwin Bankowski（50歳）とKarolina Bankowska（26歳）がPolandの芸術家に少なくとも200点の模倣品の制作を依頼し、最終的に購入者から少なくとも200万ドルを詐取したと述べた。 Continue reading...

Ari Hodara bought his ticket at the weekend after finding out about the raffle by chance while dining outA Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out on Tuesday he had won a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than €1m with a €100 raffle ticket.“How do I check that it’s not a hoax?” said Ari Hodara, 58, after organisers called him following the draw at Christie’s auction house in the French capital. Continue reading...

Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s researchA raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going to Alzheimer’s research.Picasso painted the gouache-on-paper Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman) in 1941. The raffle organisers’ online sales platform says the number of tickets will be capped at 120,000, meaning the draw could net €12m if they are all sold. Continue reading...

Madrid and Basque government leaders call each other ‘provincial’ in dispute over the artworkA row has broken out between the Madrid and Basque regional governments in Spain over the latter’s request for Guernica, probably Picasso’s most celebrated work, to be housed temporarily in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to mark the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town.The work has hung in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid since 1992 and repeated requests for it to be moved to the Basque Country have been refused. Continue reading...