With over 20,000 works spanning styles from Cubism to ceramics, Picasso's legacy shows how relentless reinvention can define ...

Juan Gris, 1913: Pears and Grapes on a Table. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Source: Photo by the author. Since cubist art reduces ...

IN a warren of studios and flats known as “the wash house,” at No. 13 Rue Ravignan in Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes ...

As Sotheby’s prepares to sell Lauder’s collection, they are releasing photographs that show how the master collector lived ...

Probably the most famed cubist painting in the world is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, which now hangs in the Hollywood home of Walter Conrad Arensberg. Last week Los An-geles newshawks ...

When we think of Cubism, a pivotal moment in the birth of modernism when artists began to deconstruct their pictorial compositions, we immediately think of Picasso and his collaborator Georges Braque.

There’s a story that National Gallery of Art curator Andrew Robison likes to tell about Pablo Picasso. “He used to say that, ‘At the age of 15, I could draw like Raphael,’” Robison says, referring to ...

Noted art collector, philanthropist, and cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder turned to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to advise on his donation of a collection of 78 Cubist drawings, paintings, and sculptures ...