60 Minutes probes a Picasso mystery
Voilà! A trove of Picassos worth millions suddenly appears, rocking the art world and the artist’s family
Pablo Picasso
Stolen Picasso works of art?
On Sunday's season premiere of "60 Minutes," Bill Whitaker brings us a story about Pablo Picasso's former electrician and his wife who came forward with 271 never-before-seen pieces of work, claiming they were a gift from the painter. But was this trove really a gift? Whitaker joins "CBS This Morning" with a preview.
Preview: The Picasso Portfolio
When 271 never-before-seen Picassos appeared in 2010 the art world was stunned. Were they really a gift or was the artwork stolen? Bill Whitaker reports on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.
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Erin Moriarty of “48 Hours” takes us on a tour of the recreated Nazi "degenerate art" event at the Neue Galerie in New York City
During Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, one of the many groups he targeted during his quest to remake the world in his image was modern artists. The Nazis confiscated works by Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso and others, and at a historic art show in 1937 displayed modern art pieces as "degenerate art." Erin Moriarty of “48 Hours” takes us on a tour of the recreated event at the Neue Galerie in New York City.
Sotheby's Paris is raffling off "Man in the Opera Hat," a million-dollar work by Pablo Picasso, and it only costs $130 for a charity raffle ticket
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For the first time ever, a painting from Pablo Picasso's own collection will be raffled off for charity
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At 68 years old, and after about 100 films and 16 seasons on "The View," Whoopi Goldberg thinks there's still part of her you do not know. She talks about her new memoir, "Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me."
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At 68 years old, and after about 100 films and 16 seasons on "The View," Whoopi Goldberg thinks there's still part of her you do not know. She's penned a memoir, "Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me," which she calls a "thank you" to her late mother, Emma, and late brother, Clyde. Goldberg talks with correspondent Seth Doane about her remarkable path, from a housing project in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, to a retreat overlooking a peninsula on the island of Sardinia.
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