RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Picture a room full of faces, some with sideways eyes, oversized noses, and funky colors. That was scene Monday at the Rapid City Public Library’s Picasso Portrait Party.

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

The idea of a female muse as a source of inspiration for the male artistic genius has had its day as their female sitters ...

The collector, art historian and critic Douglas Cooper (1911-84) relished conflict. He was a formidable man, loud in speech and dress, with forceful views and a taste for ridicule. He could also ...

A scientific reconstruction of Beethoven's face has revealed what he actually looked like - and it seems he really did look that grumpy.

Marie Laurencin, Portrait de Marguerite (1918 ... This particular painting was exchanged with Picasso in 1907, a gesture of mutual admiration during their early rivalry. Seated formally in ...

The presence of Ms. Picasso herself permeates the Gagosian exhibition — in a portrait of her holding a doll, which has her face; in the wooden dolls that her father made for her. There are also ...

A ‘Cubist’ beauty by Picasso, ‘The Portrait of Dora Maar’ is a must ... In this painting, Dora’s face is shown from multiple angles at once, be it her eyes, nose, and mouth, and there ...

It’s a serene, almost haunting portrait that flattens space dramatically and provides a ghostly mask-like face, likely quoting the white African mask he had seen hanging in Picasso’s studio.

The Courtauld Institute of Art Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Mateu Fernández de ... Disentangling the two works' faces is tricky but scholars now think that the final work – which swaps a turban ...

In the past month alone, shadowy portraits have been found hidden in longstanding masterpieces by Titian and Picasso ... contours of the hidden figure's face dictated the curve of ropes binding ...