NEW YORK — He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas. Matchbook covers, postcards, restaurant napkins — they all served as makeshift sketchpads for ...

PARIS — A sketch by Pablo Picasso of his mistress reclining nude sold for $575,357 — about three times the estimated price — at a Paris auction Monday where the woman sold 20 of the artist's works.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Picasso was born in Spain but lived most of his life in France, ...

A Picasso: Picture this: Bearlike Pablo Picasso sits in a dark stone cellar amid stacks of paintings, staring intently at his beautiful female model, who happens to be a Nazi official. As the woman ...

NEW YORK — The 96-year-old French painter and author Françoise Gilot — famously known as the former lover and muse to Pablo Picasso, and the mother of two of his children, Claude and Paloma — has a ...

Most of Pablo Picasso’s loves had tortured lives and tragic ends: Marie-Therese Walter hanged herself; Jacqueline Roque shot herself; Dora Maar became a recluse, dying poor and alone. But 79-year-old ...

PARIS -- A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolen from a locked glass case in the Paris museum that bears the painter's name, authorities said Tuesday. The book is ...

Investigators say the collector was at an airport in Spain and had the 1966 work called "Three figures" in his luggage. He didn't declare the piece, worth nearly half a million dollars, to customs.