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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Visages, 1967

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Visages, 1967

Sale Date: August 27, 2023

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Visage Noir

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Visage Noir

Sale Date: August 26, 2023

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Kinesias and His Family, 1934

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Kinesias and His Family, 1934

Sale Date: August 26, 2023

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Bacchanale, 1955

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Bacchanale, 1955

Sale Date: August 29, 2023

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Bird Under the Sun

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Bird Under the Sun

Sale Date: August 19, 2023

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"Pichet au vase", 1954

Sale Date: August 19, 2023

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Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso, 1954

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Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso, 1954

Sale Date: August 22, 2023

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Composition from “La Célestine”, 1968

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Composition from “La Célestine”, 1968

Sale Date: August 22, 2023

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Jaqueline au chapeau noir (Bloch 1028; Baer..., 1962

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Jaqueline au chapeau noir (Bloch 1028; Baer..., 1962

Sale Date: September 6, 2023

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Vallauris Exposition 1955; Vallauris..., 1959

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Vallauris Exposition 1955; Vallauris..., 1959

Sale Date: September 5, 2023

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Diurnes. Découpages et Photographies, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Diurnes. Découpages et Photographies, 1962

Sale Date: September 5, 2023

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Exposition Céramique Vallauris, 1959

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Exposition Céramique Vallauris, 1959

Sale Date: September 5, 2023

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Deux danseurs (A.R. 380), 1956

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Deux danseurs (A.R. 380), 1956

Sale Date: September 5, 2023

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Deux Femmes au Miroir (from Sable Mouvant), 1965

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Deux Femmes au Miroir (from Sable Mouvant), 1965

Sale Date: September 5, 2023

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Female Head in Profile, 1962

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Female Head in Profile, 1962

Sale Date: September 5, 2023

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Deux Femmes, 1965

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Deux Femmes, 1965

Sale Date: August 7, 2023

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Service visage noir, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Service visage noir, 1948

Sale Date: June 9, 2023

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Ça va, 1965

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Ça va, 1965

Sale Date: June 9, 2023

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Service visage noir

Pablo Picasso

Service visage noir

Sale Date: June 9, 2023

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Ça va, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Ça va, 1965

Sale Date: June 9, 2023

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”Manolo Huguet” - Affiche pour le Musée de Céret

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”Manolo Huguet” - Affiche pour le Musée de Céret

Sale Date: February 15, 2023

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Lozenge with Face, 1971

Pablo Picasso

Lozenge with Face, 1971

Sale Date: August 14, 2023

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L'atelier de Cannes, frontispiece for Ces..., 1956

Pablo Picasso

L'atelier de Cannes, frontispiece for Ces..., 1956

Sale Date: August 14, 2023

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Hommage à René Char, 1969

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Hommage à René Char, 1969

Sale Date: August 14, 2023

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