Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)

Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His use of form, color, and perspective profoundly impacted later generations of painters, including Willem de Kooning and David Hockney. “There are artists who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun,” he once said. Born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso on October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain, his talent was cultivated early on by his father the painter Jose Ruíz Blasco. Picasso went on to attend the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, he lived for a time in Barcelona before settling in Paris in 1904. Immersed in the Parisian avant-garde circles of Gertrude Stein, Picasso rapidly transitioned styles from Neo-Impressionism through his Blue Period and Rose Period. He reached a unique style with the painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). Constantly in search of pictorial solutions and in dialogue with his friend Georges Braque, Picasso melded the forms he saw in African sculpture with the fractured compositions he admired in Paul Cézanne  to produce the style of Cubism. Not limited to painting, the artist also produced collage, sculpture, and ceramics. After being deeply affected by the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War, Picasso created what is arguably his most political work Guernica (1937), a mural-sized painting depicting war-torn carnage with jagged shapes in contrasting grayscale. The artist was prolific up until his death on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as institutions devoted solely to his work, including the Museo Picasso Málaga, the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, and the Musée National Picasso in Paris.

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Assiette L (Visage noir service), 1948

Pablo Picasso

Assiette L (Visage noir service), 1948

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Visage cubiste, 1968–1969

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Visage cubiste, 1968–1969

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Motifs no. 66, 1963

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Motifs no. 66, 1963

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NU ASSIS, 1962

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NU ASSIS, 1962

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NU ASSIS, 1962

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NU ASSIS, 1962

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Cavalier et cheval (Henkelvase), 1952

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Cavalier et cheval (Henkelvase), 1952

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Hibou, 1945

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Hibou, 1945

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Vieux Sculpteur au Travail II, 1933

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Vieux Sculpteur au Travail II, 1933

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Nature morte aux poires et au pichet, 1960

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Nature morte aux poires et au pichet, 1960

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Fleurs et mains (Paz. Estocolmo), 1958

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Fleurs et mains (Paz. Estocolmo), 1958

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Sculpteur au repos avec Marie-Thérèse et sa..., 1933

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Sculpteur au repos avec Marie-Thérèse et sa..., 1933

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Tête de femme, 1945

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Tête de femme, 1945

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Le Vieux Roi, 1963

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Le Vieux Roi, 1963

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Nature morte au Compotier, 1945

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Nature morte au Compotier, 1945

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Le Repos de Sculpteur I, 1933

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Le Repos de Sculpteur I, 1933

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Sculpteur travaillant sur le motif avec..., 1933

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Sculpteur travaillant sur le motif avec..., 1933

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“The Clown”, 1962

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“The Clown”, 1962

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Pendentif

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Pendentif "Poisson" - 1973, 1973

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Pendentif

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Pendentif "Compotier trèfle" - 1959, 1959

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Tête d'homme au maillot rayé , 1964

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Tête d'homme au maillot rayé , 1964

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Quatre femmes nues et tête sculptée - 10 mars 1934

Pablo Picasso

Quatre femmes nues et tête sculptée - 10 mars 1934

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Pendentif

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Pendentif "Ovale" - 1972, 1972

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Centaure Phallique - 1956, 1956

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Centaure Phallique - 1956, 1956

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Pendentif

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Pendentif "Rond"

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