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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Grande tête de femme au chapeau orné (A.R...., 1964

Pablo Picasso

Grande tête de femme au chapeau orné (A.R...., 1964

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Picador (A.R. 162), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Picador (A.R. 162), 1952

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Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (A.R. 517), 1964

Pablo Picasso

Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (A.R. 517), 1964

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Pichet à glace (A.R. 142), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Pichet à glace (A.R. 142), 1952

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Trois personnages sur tremplin (A.R. 374), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Trois personnages sur tremplin (A.R. 374), 1956

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Profil de taureau (A.R. 317), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Profil de taureau (A.R. 317), 1956

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Femmes et toréador (A.R. 541), 1968

Pablo Picasso

Femmes et toréador (A.R. 541), 1968

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Quatre visages (A.R. 436), 1959

Pablo Picasso

Quatre visages (A.R. 436), 1959

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Sauterelle sur une branche (A.R. 259), 1955

Pablo Picasso

Sauterelle sur une branche (A.R. 259), 1955

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Plongeurs (A.R. 377), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Plongeurs (A.R. 377), 1956

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Quatre danseurs (A.R. 313), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Quatre danseurs (A.R. 313), 1956

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Visage au nez vert (A.R. 584), 1968–1969

Pablo Picasso

Visage au nez vert (A.R. 584), 1968–1969

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Taureau sous l'arbre (A.R. 159), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Taureau sous l'arbre (A.R. 159), 1952

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Oiseau au soleil (A.R. 174), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau au soleil (A.R. 174), 1952

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Joueur de flûte et chèvre (A.R. 382), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Joueur de flûte et chèvre (A.R. 382), 1956

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Oiseau no. 86 (A.R. 484), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau no. 86 (A.R. 484), 1963

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Personnages et cavalier (A.R. 540), 1968

Pablo Picasso

Personnages et cavalier (A.R. 540), 1968

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Yan soleil (A.R. 516), 1963

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Yan soleil (A.R. 516), 1963

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Chope visage (A.R. 432), 1959

Pablo Picasso

Chope visage (A.R. 432), 1959

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Deux danseurs (A.R. 380), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Deux danseurs (A.R. 380), 1956

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Profil de Jacqueline (A.R. 385), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Profil de Jacqueline (A.R. 385), 1956

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Visage de femme (A.R. 616), 1971

Pablo Picasso

Visage de femme (A.R. 616), 1971

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Picador et taureau (A.R. 439), 1959

Pablo Picasso

Picador et taureau (A.R. 439), 1959

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Plongeurs (A.R. 378), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Plongeurs (A.R. 378), 1956

Sale Date: September 25, 2023

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