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# Sum of the Arts: Picasso Edition
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-picasso-edition/
- Published: 2015-09-11T11:00:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:30:50.000Z
- Description: Estimated number of Picasso artworks that have been stolen = 1,147
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Pablo Picasso, Sum of the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3)

![Pablo Picasso, "Bull" (1958, Cannes), plywood, tree branch, nails, and screws, 46 1/8 x 56 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jacqueline Picasso, © 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/09/picassobull.jpg)

Pablo Picasso, “Bull” (1958, Cannes), plywood, tree branch, nails, and screws, 46 1/8 x 56 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jacqueline Picasso, © 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

[*Sum of the Arts*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/sum-of-the-arts/) *is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond. In a special edition inspired by the opening of* [Picasso Sculpture](https://hyperallergic.com/pablo-picasso-now-in-3d/) *at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, we tally some stats for the Spanish artist.*

- Number of sculptures in MoMA’s [*Picasso Sculpture*](https://hyperallergic.com/pablo-picasso-now-in-3d/) exhibition titled “Head of a Woman” (as counted by [Hyperallergic News Editor Ben Sutton](https://hyperallergic.com/pablo-picasso-now-in-3d/)) = **11**
- Number of ‘colors’ in “[Guernica](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/10758308/Why-Picassos-palettes-were-a-work-of-art-in-themselves.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)” = **3** (black, grey, and white)
- Years of probation [given to art dealer Tony Shafrazi](http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087449,00.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) for tagging “Guernica” at MoMA in 1974 with the words “KILL LIES ALL” in red spray paint = **5**
- Number of museums [exclusively dedicated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%5FMuseum?ref=hyperallergic.com) to Picasso = **7**
- Hours it took [to remove](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-picasso-tricorne-four-seasons-20140908-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) Picasso’s 19-foot-by-20-foot “Le Tricorne” tapestry from Manhattan’s Four Seasons, where it was hanging for [55 years](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/nyregion/after-55-years-in-vaunted-spot-a-picasso-is-persuaded-to-curl.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **12** (it’s now on view [at the New-York Historical Society](http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/picassos-le-tricorne?ref=hyperallergic.com))
- Number of stripes on Picasso’s signature [Breton shirt](http://goutaste.com/how-the-french-got-their-stripes/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **21**
- Years after his death when Picasso’s France burial site was finally [opened to the public](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580048/Pablo-Picassos-burial-site-opened-to-public.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **35**
- Number of characters in Picasso’s [full name](https://books.google.com/books?id=ASur-kzJy3AC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Pablo+Diego+Jos%C3%A9+Francisco+de+Paula+Juan+Nepomuceno+Mar%C3%ADa+de+los+Remedios+Cipriano+de+la+Sant%C3%ADsima+Trinidad+Ruiz+y+Picasso&source=bl&ots=4wS1NZhrO1&sig=J0ghSShdfCO0t%5Fjo%5FREtGBJNMwo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBzgKahUKEwiwjenF6ezHAhWCzIAKHelCDHk#v=onepage&q=Pablo%20Diego%20Jos%C3%A9%20Francisco%20de%20Paula%20Juan%20Nepomuceno%20Mar%C3%ADa%20de%20los%20Remedios%20Cipriano%20de%20la%20Sant%C3%ADsima%20Trinidad%20Ruiz%20y%20Picasso&f=false) \= **122** (Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso)
- Number of Picassos [seized in 2010](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/french-couple-guilty-of-possessing-stolen-picasso-works?ref=hyperallergic.com) from Pierre Le Guennec, Picasso’s former electrician = **271**
- Estimated number of Picasso artworks [that have been stolen](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/picasso-is-the-most-stolen%5Fn%5F1241577.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **1,147**
- Number of Picasso artworks catalogued in his [online catalogue raisonné](https://picasso.shsu.edu/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **25,629**
- Reward in French francs (no longer in circulation) offered for a missing “Mona Lisa” in 1911, which Picasso was [suspected of stealing](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/23/did-picasso-try-to-steal-the-mona-lisa.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **50,000** (he was later cleared)