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Pablo Picasso's 1934 painting, Femme a la Montre (Woman with a Watch), just sold for $139m USD via Sotheby's. The work shattered its prior estimate of $120m USD and has become the most valuable artwork to sell globally via auction this year. Created in his signature Cubist style, the painting depicts French model Marie-Thérèse Walter, who Picasso had an affair with from 1927 to 1935, as she's sat in a throne-like chair against a cobalt blue background. While still married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, Picasso saw Walter as a muse who would inspire numerous works during the height of his career. Femme a la Montre gave Picasso a “sense of release," wrote Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist & Modern Art for the Americas, giving the Spanish artist "full painterly rein ...

Henry Taylor is showcasing his first major exhibition in France at Hauser & Wirth Paris. FROM SUGAR TO SHIT comprises over 30 works, including recent paintings, sculptures, and installations, providing a comprehensive look at the Los Angeles-based artist's four-decade long career.Defined by saturated applications of paint and gestural brushstrokes, Taylor's work seeks to capture fleeting moments as a way to record a person's history. While often categorized as a portraitist, Taylor is quick to reject labels, using his practice as a way to reflect his daily experiences — from his mundane processes, the family and friends close to him, as well as the historical and pop cultural references that he draws inspiration from. Recently, the artist was tapped by fellow Angeleno Kendrick Lamar ...

Henry Taylor is showcasing his first major exhibition in France at Hauser & Wirth Paris. FROM SUGAR TO SHIT comprises over 30 works, including recent paintings, sculptures, and installations, providing a comprehensive look at the Los Angeles-based artist's four-decade long career.Defined by saturated applications of paint and gestural brushstrokes, Taylor's work seeks to capture fleeting moments as a way to record a person's history. While often categorized as a portraitist, Taylor is quick to reject labels, using his practice as a way to reflect his daily experiences — from his mundane processes, the family and friends close to him, as well as the historical and pop cultural references that he draws inspiration from. Recently, the artist was tapped by fellow Angeleno Kendrick Lamar ...

Enigmatic Spanish artist PEJAC has just cut the ribbon on his his debut solo exhibition in the U.S., titled 6 FEET UNDER. The showcase, which takes over three floors inside a warehouse-like venue located at 18 East 50th Street in New York City, explores the "destruction, dystopia and renaissance of our planet due to global warming, rising seas, and the changing of the earth due to human intervention" through three acts and 19 original works.Curated by Martin Klipp, PEJAC's exhibition flaunts the vastness of his artistic prowess, with mediums spanning sculptural installations to paintings on canvas and techniques including a burning method called pyrography. Notably, the show's name is derived from an installation that nods to Monet's signature Water Lillies inside an emptied, six-feet-deep...

Enigmatic Spanish artist PEJAC has just cut the ribbon on his his debut solo exhibition in the U.S., titled 6 FEET UNDER. The showcase, which takes over three floors inside a warehouse-like venue located at 18 East 50th Street in New York City, explores the "destruction, dystopia and renaissance of our planet due to global warming, rising seas, and the changing of the earth due to human intervention" through three acts and 19 original works.Curated by Martin Klipp, PEJAC's exhibition flaunts the vastness of his artistic prowess, with mediums spanning sculptural installations to paintings on canvas and techniques including a burning method called pyrography. Notably, the show's name is derived from an installation that nods to Monet's signature Water Lillies inside an emptied, six-feet-deep...