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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VISAGE NO. 144 (ALAIN RAMIÉ 479), 1963

Pablo Picasso

VISAGE NO. 144 (ALAIN RAMIÉ 479), 1963

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VISAGE (ALAIN RAMIÉ 448), 1960

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VISAGE (ALAIN RAMIÉ 448), 1960

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HIBOU (ALAIN RAMIÉ 253), 1954

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HIBOU (ALAIN RAMIÉ 253), 1954

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VISAGE (ALAIN RAMIÉ 290), 1955

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VISAGE (ALAIN RAMIÉ 290), 1955

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TÊTES (ALAIN RAMIÉ 368), 1956

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TÊTES (ALAIN RAMIÉ 368), 1956

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SUEÑO Y MENTIRA DE FRANCO (BLOCH 297-298;..., 1937

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SUEÑO Y MENTIRA DE FRANCO (BLOCH 297-298;..., 1937

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TÊTES (ALAIN RAMIÉ 367), 1956

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TÊTES (ALAIN RAMIÉ 367), 1956

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DANS L'ATELIER (BLOCH 1140; BAER 1138), 1963

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DANS L'ATELIER (BLOCH 1140; BAER 1138), 1963

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DON QUICHOTTE RENCONTRANT DULCINÉE (BLOCH..., 1968

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DON QUICHOTTE RENCONTRANT DULCINÉE (BLOCH..., 1968

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LE REPOS DU SCULPTEUR II (BLOCH 172; BAER 325), 1933

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LE REPOS DU SCULPTEUR II (BLOCH 172; BAER 325), 1933

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QUATRE VISAGES (ALAIN RAMIÉ 437), 1959

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QUATRE VISAGES (ALAIN RAMIÉ 437), 1959

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NATURE MORTE AU POT DE GRÈS (BLOCH 443;..., 1947

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NATURE MORTE AU POT DE GRÈS (BLOCH 443;..., 1947

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VALLAURIS. PEINTURE ET LUMIERE. Xᵉ..., 1964

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VALLAURIS. PEINTURE ET LUMIERE. Xᵉ..., 1964

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FUMEUR À LA CIGARETTE ROUGE (BLOCH, BAER 1167), 1964

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FUMEUR À LA CIGARETTE ROUGE (BLOCH, BAER 1167), 1964

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LE VERRE D'ABSINTHE (ABSINTHE GLASS), 1972

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LE VERRE D'ABSINTHE (ABSINTHE GLASS), 1972

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SERVICE VISAGE NOIR (ALAIN RAMIÉ 38), 1948

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SERVICE VISAGE NOIR (ALAIN RAMIÉ 38), 1948

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TÊTE DE BOUFFON, 1964

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TÊTE DE BOUFFON, 1964

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FEMME (ALAIN RAMIÉ 296), 1955

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FEMME (ALAIN RAMIÉ 296), 1955

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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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Picador ashtray, 1952

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Picador ashtray, 1952

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Dans l’Atelier

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Dans l’Atelier

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Paloma

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Paloma

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Femme nue devant une statue. Plate 6 from La...

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue devant une statue. Plate 6 from La...

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Toros

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Toros

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