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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Portrait de Jacqueline au chapeau de paille..., 1962

Pablo Picasso

Portrait de Jacqueline au chapeau de paille..., 1962

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Étude de profils (B. 581; M. 132), 1948

Pablo Picasso

Étude de profils (B. 581; M. 132), 1948

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Le Crapaud (B. 585; M. 144), 1949

Pablo Picasso

Le Crapaud (B. 585; M. 144), 1949

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Fumeur II (B. 1166; Ba. 1166), 1964

Pablo Picasso

Fumeur II (B. 1166; Ba. 1166), 1964

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Femme nue à la source (B. 1093; Ba. 1326), 1962

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue à la source (B. 1093; Ba. 1326), 1962

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Tête de femme: Madeleine, from Saltimbanques , 1905

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme: Madeleine, from Saltimbanques , 1905

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Le Repas Frugal, from Saltimbanques (Bloch..., 1904

Pablo Picasso

Le Repas Frugal, from Saltimbanques (Bloch..., 1904

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Portrait de Jacqueline Accoudée (B. 922; Ba. , 1959

Pablo Picasso

Portrait de Jacqueline Accoudée (B. 922; Ba. , 1959

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Jacqueline au chapeau noir (B. 1028; Ba. 1311), 1962

Pablo Picasso

Jacqueline au chapeau noir (B. 1028; Ba. 1311), 1962

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Femme songeuse et inquiète dans l'atelier de , 1933

Pablo Picasso

Femme songeuse et inquiète dans l'atelier de , 1933

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune (B...., 1958

Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune (B...., 1958

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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A group of nine Limoges porcelain plates

Pablo Picasso

A group of nine Limoges porcelain plates

Sale Date: October 31, 2023

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Visage' (A.R. 290), 1955

Pablo Picasso

Visage' (A.R. 290), 1955

Sale Date: October 31, 2023

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Le Verre d’absinthe, 1972

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Le Verre d’absinthe, 1972

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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La Californie (Intérieur rouge), 1960

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La Californie (Intérieur rouge), 1960

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Le Verre d’absinthe, 1972

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Le Verre d’absinthe, 1972

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Nature morte cubiste

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Nature morte cubiste

Sale Date: October 23, 2023

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Esmeralda

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Esmeralda

Sale Date: October 23, 2023

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Le Cheval et la Femme

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Le Cheval et la Femme

Sale Date: October 23, 2023

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Esmeralda

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Esmeralda

Sale Date: October 23, 2023

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Jaime Sabartés, A Los Toros, André Sauret..., 1961

Pablo Picasso

Jaime Sabartés, A Los Toros, André Sauret..., 1961

Sale Date: October 23, 2023

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Visage au masque de chevrons (A.R. 502), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage au masque de chevrons (A.R. 502), 1963

Sale Date: October 20, 2023

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Visage à la grille (A.R. 352), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Visage à la grille (A.R. 352), 1956

Sale Date: October 20, 2023

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Exposition Poteries Fleurs Parfums..., 1948

Pablo Picasso

Exposition Poteries Fleurs Parfums..., 1948

Sale Date: October 20, 2023

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