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• Monet Fails; Picasso & Klimt Sell at Christie’s
  Claude Monet’s Nymphéas didn’t sell today at Christie’s but Picasso’s blue period portrait did, even if it sold for a...
  
• Picasso for Swashbucklers
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• Picasso Shines
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• Late Picasso, The Prequel
  Carol Vogel’s New York Times column announces another exhibition of Picasso’s work organized by John Richardson and his grandson Bernard...