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Woven Icons: Nelson Rockefeller’s Picasso tapestries celebrate the Spanish master’s greatest hits

Imagine being able to ask Pablo Picasso, the most renowned artist of the 20th century, to help decorate your basement. For Nelson Rockefeller, it was more than a tycoonish whim. Between 1958 and 1975, he commissioned Picasso to create large-scale tapestries based on some of the Spanish-born artist’s best-known paintings to hang in Kykuit, the […]

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