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A handout picture from the Youth Demand campaign group shows an activist pasting a photo of a Gazan mother and child over Picasso's artwork entitles 'Motherhood,' at the National Gallery in central London on October 9, 2024. (AFP Photo/Youth Demand - Handout)
October 9, 2024, 6:41 pm
UK activists deface Picasso painting with photo from Gaza to protest Israel arms sales
Two arrested after also pouring red paint on floor of UK National Gallery, shouting ‘Free Palestine’; no permanent damage to 1901 work ‘Motherhood’
By AFP
In this photo taken on Monday, March 2, 2020, billionaire art dealer David Nahmad poses in front of a colorful work by French-born American artist Arman, in Nahmad's home in Monaco. (AP Photo/John Leicester)
March 10, 2020, 12:46 pm
Billionaire bids anxious farewell to a Picasso
Jewish art collector David Nahmad hopes ‘Nature Morte,’ to be raffled off for charity, will fall into hands of someone who will appreciate it
By John Leicester
Detail from 'The Actor,' by Pablo Picasso. (Wikimedia)
June 28, 2019, 1:14 am
Court lets Met keep Picasso masterpiece sold for $12,000 by family fleeing Nazis
Appeals court rules that descendants of Jewish businessman who owned ‘The Actor’ waited too long to demand it be returned by NY museum
By JTA
This file photo taken on July 20, 2008 shows Canadian singer Leonard Cohen greeting the public during the international Festival of Beincassim. (AFP/Diego Tuson)
October 12, 2018, 12:57 am
Leonard Cohen wrote a poem called ‘Kanye West Is Not Picasso’
Newly released posthumous collection by Jewish singer includes a poem making fun of US rapper, colleague Jay-Z for comparing themselves to art legends
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video showing a detail from Pablo Picasso's painting 'The Actor.' (YouTube)
February 8, 2018, 6:34 pm
Judge says the Met can keep Picasso sold by Jew fleeing the Nazis
Court finds that family of late German businessman Paul Leffmann failed to show he disposed of masterpiece ‘The Actor’ under duress as he escaped to Switzerland
By JTA
A visitor watches the paintings 'Melancholisches Maedchen' (left) and Nackte Frau im Walde" of German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the exhibition 'Status Report Gurlitt. degenerate art - confiscated and sold' in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, on Wednesday, November 1, 2017. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)
November 1, 2017, 8:53 pm
Hundreds of Nazi-looted artworks go on display in twin exhibitions
450 pieces from Gurlitt collection displayed in Switzerland and Germany to shed light on systematic theft from Jewish collectors
By Madeleine SCHWARTZ
People hold candles during a ceremonial march to commemorate the 80th aniversary of the bombing the Spanish northern Basque village of Gernika on April 26, 2017. (Ander Gillenea/AFP)
April 28, 2017, 4:33 pm
Spain’s Guernica marks 80th anniversary of bombing
Sirens symbolically blare across town at precise moment when Nazi warplanes carpet-bombed it during Spanish Civil War
By Adrien VICENTE
The mural-sized oil painting on canvas Guernica by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937. (Wikimedia commons)
April 1, 2017, 9:06 am
80 years on, Picasso’s anti-war Guernica still resonates
From 1937 Spain to 2017 Syria, the haunting work of art has become a universal cry against conflict
By Laurence BOUTREUX
Pastoral, Henri Matisse, 1905 (WikiArt)
February 1, 2017, 1:04 pm
Picasso, Matisse and other art from 2010 Paris heist may be in Israel
‘Spiderman’ burglar on trial over $100m haul of five paintings; one accomplice suspected of selling them to Israeli collector
By AFP and ToI Staff
Newly discovered Picasso sketch bearing a likeness of former mayor Teddy Kollek, December 2016 (Courtesy)
December 26, 2016, 6:41 pm
Picasso sketch of ex-J’lem mayor narrowly avoids trash
Previously unknown doodle of Teddy Kollek, who founded the Israel Museum, found in catalog of Spanish artist’s 1965 exhibit
By Ilan Ben Zion
People attend the inauguration of '21 Rue de la Boetie,' an exhibition on legendary French art dealer Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959), at the Musee de la Boverie in Liege, Belgium on September 21, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/JOHN THYS)
September 24, 2016, 8:57 am
Art meets history in homage to legendary French Jewish dealer
Paul Rosenberg, who represented Matisse and Picasso, was forced to flee Paris in WWII, leaving behind many paintings to be stolen, destroyed or sold by the Nazis
By Catherine BENNETT
Jackson Pollock's 'Mural on Indian Red Ground.' (Wikipedia/Fair use)
May 13, 2016, 1:45 am
Shah of Iran’s art collection to go on show in Berlin
Event marks first time since 1979 the prestigious collection, including Picasso, Warhol, Pollock, is exhibited outside Tehran
By AFP
Illustrative: A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/ AFP/File)
April 4, 2016, 10:32 pm
Swiss, German museums to show Nazi-era art hoard
Vast collection belonged to Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father was tasked by Hitler to help plunder great works from Jewish collectors
By AFP
A scene from Music of Remembrance's opera 'After Life' with Gertrude Stein (Catherine Cook, mezzo soprano) and Picasso (Robert Orth, baritone). (courtesy of Michael Beaton)
July 4, 2015, 1:48 pm
How could Gertrude Stein and Picasso have been friends?
Through operatic caricatures of the Vichy-supporting Stein and communist Picasso, ‘After Life’ explores artistic responsibility during the Holocaust
By Emily K. Alhadeff
Max Liebermann's "Two riders on the beach" (YouTube screen capture)
June 24, 2015, 11:58 pm
Nazi-looted painting from Munich fetches close to $3m
Max Liebermann’s ‘Two Riders on a Beach,’ among works found in home of Cornelius Gurlitt, garners three times its sales estimate
By Ruth Holmes
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