A rarely seen painting Pablo Picasso sells for just under £13.5m at Christie’s auction house in London.

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Picasso painting sells for £13.5m

Could Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda have been murdered? Chilean officials are launching an investigation into the poet’s 1973 death, responding to a request by the country’s communist party. Official accounts say Neruda died of prostate cancer…

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Chile Will Investigate Neruda’s Death

The world’s most expensive painting ever sold at auction – a work by Pablo Picasso – is going on show in the UK, a year after it was bought for £65.5m.

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A portrait of the muse who transformed painter Pablo Picasso’s life is sold for £25.2m ($40.7m) at Sotheby’s auction house in London.

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Picasso painting sells for £25m

A portrait of the muse who transformed painter Pablo Picasso’s life and art is to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London next week.

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Bach’s cello suites are among the best known works of classical music, now risking popularization to the point of fatigue as they provide background music for cat food commercials. But one hundred and forty years after the great composer’s death they were virtually unknown, until a young, aspiring Catalan cellist came across them in a musty music shop. Eric Siblin has captured an extraordinary romance–that of Pablo Casals, J.S. Bach, and their mutual obsession with the sonic possibilities of the cello. I put six questions to Siblin about his book, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, now appearing in paperback: . . .

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SCOTT HORTON—Bach’s Cello Suites–Six Questions for Eric Siblin

More than 270 previously unknown works by Pablo Picasso recently came to light when a retired electrician sought to have them authenticated by the late artist’s estate, the Picasso Administration said Monday.

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270 previously unknown Picassos found

Cash, check, or cubist painting? A French electrician who installed an alarm system for Spanish painter Pablo Picasso three years before the artist’s death has come forward with a stash of artwork he says Picasso gave him as a gift. Pierre Le Guennec…

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271 Unknown Picasso Works Found

A in southern France says he has hundreds of previously unknown works by Pablo Picasso, worth about $60m.

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Retired electrician reveals his Picasso ‘treasure trove’

West Brom win appeal against the dismissal of defender Pablo Ibanez in Monday’s 2-1 defeat at Blackpool.

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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini says defender Pablo Zabaleta will miss Sunday’s Premier League game against Newcastle with a hamstring injury.

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