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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Un Déjeuner sur l'Herbe Rembranesque, avec..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Un Déjeuner sur l'Herbe Rembranesque, avec..., 1968

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Portrait-Charge d'un Personnage, en Larmes,..., 1968

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Portrait-Charge d'un Personnage, en Larmes,..., 1968

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Femme assise (Dora Maar), 1955

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Femme assise (Dora Maar), 1955

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Famille des Saltimbanques, 1950

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Famille des Saltimbanques, 1950

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Degas imaginant, fête champêtre, avec bal..., 1971

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Degas imaginant, fête champêtre, avec bal..., 1971

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Nature morte à la pastèque, 1962

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Nature morte à la pastèque, 1962

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Deux femmes près de la fenêtre, 1959

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Deux femmes près de la fenêtre, 1959

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Modèle et Grand Sculpture de Dos, from La..., 1933

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Modèle et Grand Sculpture de Dos, from La..., 1933

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Buste d'Homme, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

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Buste d'Homme, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette,..., 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette,..., 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette, I, , 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette, I, , 1934

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Ines and her Child, 1947

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Ines and her Child, 1947

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La Plongeuse, 1932

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La Plongeuse, 1932

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Peintre devant son tableau, from Le..., 1927

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Peintre devant son tableau, from Le..., 1927

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Nu Assis, 1962

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Nu Assis, 1962

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Personnages masqués et Femme Oiseau, from La , 1934

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Personnages masqués et Femme Oiseau, from La , 1934

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Les Pauvres, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

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Les Pauvres, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

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Still life with eggplant, 1954

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Still life with eggplant, 1954

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Vallauris, 1956

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Vallauris, 1956

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Minotaure caressant du mufle la main d’une..., 1933

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Minotaure caressant du mufle la main d’une..., 1933

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Visage de Femme, 1953

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Visage de Femme, 1953

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Faune dévoilant une dormeuse, 1936

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Faune dévoilant une dormeuse, 1936

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Taureau dans l’arène, 1948

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Taureau dans l’arène, 1948

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une petite fille , 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une petite fille , 1934

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