A simple guitar inspired the Spanish artist to think out of the cubist box—and create a symphony of work that would change art forever. Blake Gopnik explores MoMA's new Picasso show.

Photos: Picasso's Guitars Centre Pompidou, Musee National D'Art Modern, Paris--©2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso-Artists Rghts Society (ARS), New York. By Blake Gopnik ...

A small wooden guitar painted by Pablo Picasso for his daughter Paloma has been found in a shoe box in the apartment of an Italian businessman in Pomezia, near Rome, Italian media reported.

A small wooden guitar painted by Pablo Picasso for his daughter Paloma has been found in a shoe box in the apartment of an Italian businessman in Pomezia, near Rome, Italian media reported Tuesday.

Picasso brought an end to pictorial realism with his collages and paperboard sculptures of guitars. The Week. US Edition. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE. ... Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914.

Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist has secrets in its past and in its paint. The Old Guitarist is the most iconic work of Picasso’s Blue Period. Picasso could relate to his penniless guitar player.

THE DAILY PIC (#1399, Picasso Edition): As promised, today’s column is devoted to the treasure-filled “Picasso Sculpture” exhibition at MoMA. In fact, the Daily Pic is going to roam among ...

Pablo Picasso's "Guitar on a Table" sold at an auction Monday for $37.1 million. The painting was just one of Picasso's works that sold at the auction at Sotheby's.

Pablo Picasso’s 1919 work “Guitar on a Table,” held on loan at the New York Museum of Modern Art since 1990, sold at Sotheby’s Monday for $37.1 million.