Died this day

Edgar Degas, After Bathing, Woman Drying Herself, 1905

Asger Jorn, Stalingrad (aka The Mad Laughter), 1956

Asger Jorn, Letter to my Son, 1957

Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz, Death and the Maiden

Niccolò dell'Arca, The Two Marys, ~1460s

Pablo Picasso, Brooding Woman (recto) , Three Children (verso) , 1904

Gaetano Cellini, Humanity Against Evil, 1908

Alice Pike Barney, Medusa (Laura Dreyfus Barney), 1892

Pere Borrell del Caso, Escaping Criticism, 1874

Salvador Dalí, Portrait of Picasso, 1947

Salvador Dalí, Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time, 1939

René Magritte, The Pleasure Principle: Portrait of Edward James, 1937

Emil Nolde, The Sea B, 1930

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Seated Dancer in Pink Tights, 1890

Born this day

Edgar Degas, Dancer, 1877

David Hockney, Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #2, 1986

Pablo Picasso & Gjon Mili, Light Drawings, 1949

Royal Academy of Arts: Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei, Study of Perspective - Tiananmen, Bejing, China, 1993-2005

"Jacqueline Roque (24 February 1927 – 15 October 1986) is best known as the muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso. Their marriage lasted 11 years until his death, during which time he created over 400 portraits of her, more than any of Picasso's other loves." ~ Wikipedia

Pablo Picasso, Femme assise (Jacqueline), 1962

Werner Knaupp, Westmännerinseln, 2011