That's one conclusion to draw from Picasso Guitars: 1912-1914, a wonderful new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The fall of 1912 was a watershed for the 31-year-old Picasso.

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. The guitar ...

The guitar is incidental ... may be the single most “liberating transformation” that Picasso ever effected upon art.

In order to do so, it helps to come at the art from a different angle. Why, for instance, is the guitar such an important subject for Picasso—and in the present instance, the very site of his ...

Art historians suggest Picasso chose this angular pose accented ... The Old Guitarist is bigger than you’d expect. Because the guitar player is contorted and cramped within the frame, you ...

The guitars are what Donald Judd later called ... It is in these sculptures (and paintings of this period) that Picasso’s art gets fleshier and more organic, as he claims a larger part ...

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. The cubist painting was expected to ...

Picasso’s “Guitar and Wine Glass,” 1912, collage and charcoal on board.Credit...Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Collection of the McNay Art Museum ...

Artist Pablo Picasso's "Guitar on a Table" painting sold at an auction Monday for $37.1 million after spending 30 years at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The cubist, which was sold at Sotheby ...