Picasso

• 两人在法庭上道歉，此前他们被指控诈骗包括 New York 一些最著名美术拍卖行在内的买家。 • New Jersey 的一对父女承认实施了一项长达数年的造假计划，诱骗艺术画廊和拍卖行购买 Andy Warhol、Banksy 和 Pablo Picasso 等著名艺术家的伪造画作。 • 联邦检察官表示，50 岁的 Erwin Bankowski 和 26 岁的 Karolina Bankowska 委托 Poland 的一名艺术家创作了至少 200 件伪作，最终诈骗买家至少 $2m。继续阅读...

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...