L’Art en Guerre at the Guggenheim Bilbao

The Guggenheim Bilbao’s major spring exhibition, scheduled to open on 16 March, is entitled: L’Art en Guerre. France, 1938–1947: from Picasso to Dubuffet. 

The show has been organised by the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris-Musées and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Russian artworks hit new heights at Christie’s

The strength of Russian art as an investment has been underlined once again with Christie’s achieving a record price for The Coachman by Boris Kustodiev.

The work was painted in 1923 and was formerly in the collection of Noble Prize winner and friend of the artist Peter Kapitza (1894-1984). 

Picasso & Modern British Art at Tate Britain

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust

Pablo Picasso was perhaps the most influential artistic figure of the 20th century and Tate Britain is this year exploring the effect he had on art in the UK.

Its methodology is to consider the stimulus Picasso provided to seven British artists: Wyndham Lewis, Duncan Grant, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney. As a parallel theme it also considers how the Spanish artist was received by British collectors.

The show is entitled Picasso & Modern British Art, a title that was chosen for specific reasons, says its curator, Chris Stephens.