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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Chouette (Wood-Owl), 1968

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Chouette (Wood-Owl), 1968

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Vase au bouquet (Vase with Bouquet), 1956

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Vase au bouquet (Vase with Bouquet), 1956

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Lampe femme (Woman Lamp), 1955

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Lampe femme (Woman Lamp), 1955

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Femme assise au chapeau et femme debout..., 1934

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Femme assise au chapeau et femme debout..., 1934

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Tête de lion (Lion's Head), 1968–1969

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Tête de lion (Lion's Head), 1968–1969

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Tête de femme tournée à droite (Head of..., 1933

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Tête de femme tournée à droite (Head of..., 1933

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Portrait de Marie-Thérèse de face (Portrait..., 1934

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Portrait de Marie-Thérèse de face (Portrait..., 1934

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Sculpteur et modèle admirant une tête..., 1933

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Sculpteur et modèle admirant une tête..., 1933

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Visage, 1960

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Visage, 1960

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Femme nue et homme à la canne, from..., 1969

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Femme nue et homme à la canne, from..., 1969

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Famille de saltimbanques, from La suite..., 1933

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Famille de saltimbanques, from La suite..., 1933

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Deux figures nues (Two Nude Figures), 1909

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Deux figures nues (Two Nude Figures), 1909

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Lysistrasa (6 works), 1934

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Lysistrasa (6 works), 1934

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Femmes sur la plage (Women on the Beach), 1947

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Femmes sur la plage (Women on the Beach), 1947

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Fumeur au maillot rayé gris et bleu (Smoker..., 1964

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Fumeur au maillot rayé gris et bleu (Smoker..., 1964

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Visage de Marie-Thérèse (Face of..., 1928

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Visage de Marie-Thérèse (Face of..., 1928

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Jeune femme surprenant le reflet d'une..., 1936

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Jeune femme surprenant le reflet d'une..., 1936

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L'âne, from from Histoire naturelle:..., 1936

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L'âne, from from Histoire naturelle:..., 1936

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Le verre sous la lampe (The Glass under the..., 1962

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Le verre sous la lampe (The Glass under the..., 1962

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Nature morte à la bouteille (Still Life with , 1962

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Nature morte à la bouteille (Still Life with , 1962

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Vénus et l'amour, d'après Cranach (Venus and , 1949

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Vénus et l'amour, d'après Cranach (Venus and , 1949

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Pique III, 1959

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Pique III, 1959

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Jacqueline de profil à droite (Portrait of..., 1958

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Jacqueline de profil à droite (Portrait of..., 1958

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“Cap d’un pagès català”, 1961

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“Cap d’un pagès català”, 1961

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