"The way that Picasso depicts a woman over the course of their relationship ... Looking at the blank mirror, or window, in the background, you can't see any way out and there is no perspective ...

Pieter Codde was an Amsterdam painter who specialised in genre scenes of everyday life. And this is just how A Woman Holding a Mirror of 1625, his earliest known work, can be seen. An attractive and ...

A 1932 Pablo Picasso masterpiece has sold for $139m (£113m), the second highest price ever achieved for the artist, according to Sotheby's. Femme a la Montre (Woman with a Watch) also becomes the ...