Japanese enjoy art more than French, says curator of Lille Métropole Museum of Modern Art

An anonymous Russian collector's investment in Dora Maar au Chat has lead several important works to enter the market

Chicago collector agrees to pay claimant to gain title to the work

Marilynn Alsdorf had hoped the case would be thrown out of court

Picasso’s granddaughter is preparing the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s sculpture, with funding from the Gagosian Gallery

The artist will be played by Andy Garcia

Up until this point, the works were in the custody of a foundation established by the Im Obersteg family subsequent to their purchase

The last summing up, two months before he died, by the greatest Irish painter of the 20th century in an interview with the photographer Francis Giacobetti

Ursus Books Ltd Matisse Villon C.G. Boerner The sculptures of Picasso Gagosian Gallery

How a historical work of art loses its past

The French artist on playing chess with Duchamp and collecting his own work

The Art Deco war comes to Florida International University

Most of the unsold lots were high-value items unlikely to attract new buyers

The refurbished and extended Ludwig Museum has opened, with hundreds of Picassos on display and a colour-coded system for requesting sponsorship

Court says non-professional buyers do not have to check “provenance”

Matisse wanted his art to be like a comfortable easy chair, while Picasso preferred to think of art as a weapon. But did these statements correspond with reality?

The top twenty has Cézanne at the top with a new record from Sotheby's

Fontana moves from Hayward exhibition to commercial gallery, Basquiat’s drawings come to the City and the centenary of the charming Ardizzone is celebrated

As the Tate and MoMA prepare their mammoth exhibition of works by the two artists in 2002 the Kimbell steps into the ring first with a similar, but smaller, show of its own

“Picasso and the War Years 1937-45”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 5 February-9 May

At the liberation of Paris, Picasso declared, “I am not the kind of painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict. But I have no doubt that the war is in these paintings.” This exhibition sifts the evidence

Exhibitions, projects, budgets, and attendance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Impressionist painters on the Seine at Wildenstein, the Gilded Age glows at Vance Jordan, exoticism at Mark Murray plus fine furniture and Picasso’s lino cuts

A Foujita, a Picasso and a Gleizes revert to the descendants of the owners–but over 1000 works remain homeless

Bringing together Picasso and Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois and Basquiat, Lam and the new Latin Americans, Jean-Hubert Martin and Achille Bonito Oliva

After leaving Berlin in 1937, Berggruen will be placing his collection - which will go on show this autumn - on a ten-year loan with the Berlin State Museums

David D’Arcy reviews the rash of films about art and artists now being made in the US