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A vibrant, multi-hued painting from Pablo Picasso has set a world record for artwork at auction, selling for $179.4 million on May 11, while a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti set a record for most expensive sculpture, at $141.3 million.

Christie's auction house is hoping to set new world records with a Picasso valued at $140 million and a Giacometti worth $130 million, as New York's spring auction season kicks off May 5.

Pablo Picasso's colorful "The Women of Algiers (Version 0)," depicting a scene from a harem, will be up for grabs when Christie's puts it on the auction block May 11.

An exhibition of more than 50 works of the Spanish art genius Pablo Picasso opened on Thursday at the National Museum in the country's old royal capital, Cetinje.

The event has been hailed as one of the most important on the Montenegrin art scene in a long time.

BELGRADE - An exhibition entitled Art Tour, which is made up of highest quality reproductions of the masterpieces included in the collection of the National Museum in Belgrade, will be opened at Nikola Tesla Airport on March 27.

Pablo Picasso’s pottery artworks are being auctioned off by Sotheby’s in London, March 18. Vases, plates, bowls and others, numbering more than 100 pieces of art, all hand-crafted and painted by the Spanish painter will be auctioned for prices ranging between 2,000 and 30,000 UK pounds.

It is not every artist who could see a woman's hat in a red farmyard faucet, but works on display in Istanbul show the 20th century Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro in a playful mood in later life.

"Women, Birds, Stars" at the Sak?p Sabanc? Museum features 125 paintings, prints, sculptures, tapestries and ceramics, including loans from the Miro family's personal collection.

A Picasso painting stolen from the Georges Pompidou center in Paris in 2001 was discovered in the United States, where it was sent as… a Christmas gift, according to New York’s judicial authorities.

The painting is valued at many a million dollars, according to the Brooklyn D.A. It is estimated at 30 million euros.

An exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso will be one of the central events in the 2015 cultural calendar organized by the Cervantes Institute and the Spanish Embassy in Sofia.

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A painting by Henri Matisse stolen more than a decade ago in Caracas and later recovered in an FBI sting is on display again in the Venezuelan capital.
      
The "Odalisque in Red Pants", worth around $3 million, was exhibited Tuesday for the first time in more than a decade at the Museum of Contemporary Art.