The most popular artwork she says, are from artists including Picasso, Warhol, Josef Albers and Joan Miró. Honoré-Victorin Daumier and Eugène Delacroix have also been rented.

Pablo Picasso pictured at his villa, La Californie, in Cannes, France in 1957. Franz Hubmann/Imagno/Getty Images Picasso abandoned his first wife, ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova.

Picasso unveiled. And the unexpected pleasures of being an animal. By Book Notes July 16, 2006 at 1:00 a.m. EDT ...