If that isn't the largest Picasso collection outside a museum, it's beaten only by what's in the Picasso family.
The highlights of the historical collection include Picasso's provocative "Woman in an Armchair (Eva), " (1913), an erotic image of Picasso's mistress Eva Gouel, according to the museum's review.
One of the earliest and most important works by Picasso to enter a British collection, it marks a transition into the artist's celebrated Blue Period, when he moved away from a broadly Impressionistic style to a more sparing aesthetic, creating sombre works painted almost solely in shades of blue and blue-green.
The same year saw the publication of "Picasso 1881-1973, " a collection of essays co-edited with Roland Penrose that included his own seminal discussion of Picasso's complex relationship to the Surrealist movement.
The Sidney Brody collection, which included the Picasso painting, set a near perfect record as a number of pieces sold for prices well above esitmates.
More conventional, but still huge galleries, roughly 50 feet square, are devoted to the Guggenheim's classic collection of modern art -- Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Leger, Miro -- a roll call of the names recent generations have grown up with.
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Ironically, Picasso did not sign any of the work in his own collection.
He overhears de la Renta telling the makeup artist for a recent runway show that he wants a "real Picasso red" for the nail polish, and a color cosmetics collection follows.
The permanent collection concentrates on international contemporary art post-1945, including Picasso, Giacometti, Baselitz, Warhol and Bacon.
He also maintains a vast art collection, including works by El Greco, Lichtenstein, Motherwells, Picasso and Rothko, in addition to a real estate portfolio comprised of properties in Texas and Hawaii.
So the Picasso Museum in Paris, for instance, which displays work from the artist's collection, has little signed work.
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