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The Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza (SM/ART Editions has a Hopper from their collection) and Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition Impressionist Gardens, an extensive survey of the theme of gardens in painting from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. This major project undertaken in collaboration with the National Gallery of Scotland. The exhibition runs in Madrid, Spain through February 13.

Start your own art garden with George Wesley Bellows, Claude Monet, or Pierre-Auguste Renoir SM/ART Editions!

Reuters recently reported the discovery of a long-lost da Vinci manuscript.

"A long-lost fragment of manuscript by Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci has been uncovered in a public library in western France after lying forgotten in storage for nearly one and a half centuries.

The text, written from right to left in Da Vinci's trademark mirror-writing, was among 5,000 documents donated to the city of Nantes in 1872 by wealthy collector Pierre-Antoine Labouchere, and then left to languish in local archives.

It was only when a local journalist came across a reference to the document's location in a biography of the Italian master that the manuscript was finally tracked down.

"He was most probably writing in 15th-century Italian, and possibly in other languages, so it's now got to be deciphered," said Agnes Marcetteau, head of the Nantes library where the manuscript was found.

For the time being, however, the contents of the Da Vinci script -- a few lines on a yellowed scrap of paper -- remained a mystery and experts had yet to decipher the artist's brown scrawl, she said..."

Start your own collection with one of the artist's most beloved masterworks.

Paula Hayes, Nocturne of the Limax maximus, a botanical sculpture, organic in form and containing a variety of living plants, will enliven the lobby of New York's Museum of Modern Art November 17 through February 28.

Hayes' White Tiles and Grey Tiles series, each consisting of nine SM/ART Editions squares that can be displayed in a grid to form a larger work, will be on sale in the museum store.

Can't make it to New York? Email info@artdonesmart.com to order your set!

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) had his first-ever museum retrospective in 1932. The Spanish painter personally assembled the works for the Kunsthaus Zürich exhibition. The exhibition constituted a veritable revolution in the art world, the first time the works for a museum show were selected by the artist himself, and not by the director. The entire permanent collection of the Kunsthaus was removed to make way for more than 200 works by Picasso, 56 of them from the artist's own collection. Now, Picasso's first retrospective is being revived at the Kunsthaus Zürich. With this homage to the 1932 exhibition, curators evoke the background of the world's first comprehensive Picasso museum show, and demonstrate its influence on the reception of the now world-famous artist. Over 70 masterpieces are assembled. The historical significance of this expensive and logistically complex exhibition, together with its selection of individual pieces, makes it a one-of-a-kind event, on show exclusively in Zurich through January 30.

Create your own homage to the master artist with works from SM/ART's Picasso Collection!