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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Hibou Pichet tourné, 1954

Pablo Picasso

Hibou Pichet tourné, 1954

Sale Date: July 7, 2023

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Picasso - Les Ménines, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Picasso - Les Ménines, 1959

Sale Date: July 12, 2023

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Broche

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Broche "Centaure Phallique", 1956

Sale Date: July 19, 2023

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Cover from Picasso Lithographe I (back), 1949

Pablo Picasso

Cover from Picasso Lithographe I (back), 1949

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Lithograph 11, 1964

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Lithograph 11, 1964

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Cover from Picasso Lithographe I (front), 1949

Pablo Picasso

Cover from Picasso Lithographe I (front), 1949

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Cover from Picasso Lithographe III

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Cover from Picasso Lithographe III

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From HUMAN COMEDY

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From HUMAN COMEDY

Sale Date: July 13, 2023

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Couple posant pour un portrait en medaillon, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Couple posant pour un portrait en medaillon, 1966

Sale Date: July 14, 2023

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Homme barbu songeant a une scene des Mille..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Homme barbu songeant a une scene des Mille..., 1968

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Nature Morte Au Compotier (Ed : 146-300), 1965

Pablo Picasso

Nature Morte Au Compotier (Ed : 146-300), 1965

Sale Date: July 21, 2023

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Nu Couche, 1969

Pablo Picasso

Nu Couche, 1969

Sale Date: July 21, 2023

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Nu Au Fauteuil (Ed : 15-50), 1966

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Nu Au Fauteuil (Ed : 15-50), 1966

Sale Date: July 21, 2023

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Madame Ricardo Canals (Ed : 23-60), 1966

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Madame Ricardo Canals (Ed : 23-60), 1966

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Le Bain, from the Saltimbanques Suite (Bloch , 1905

Pablo Picasso

Le Bain, from the Saltimbanques Suite (Bloch , 1905

Sale Date: July 6, 2023

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Mes dessins d'Antibes

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Mes dessins d'Antibes

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Pichet aux oiseaux, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Pichet aux oiseaux, 1962

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Faunes et Flore d'Antibes

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Faunes et Flore d'Antibes

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Taureau sous l'arbre, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Taureau sous l'arbre, 1952

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Personnages et cavalier, 1968

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Personnages et cavalier, 1968

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Mains au poisson, 1953

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Mains au poisson, 1953

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Danseurs, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Danseurs, 1956

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Mes papiers collés, 1910–1914

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Mes papiers collés, 1910–1914

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Pichet têtes, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Pichet têtes, 1953

Sale Date: July 5, 2023

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