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 Stéphane Mallarmé, 1943

Pablo Picasso

Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé, 1943

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Sculpteur devant sa sculpture: Plate 1 from..., 1927

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Sculpteur devant sa sculpture: Plate 1 from..., 1927

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DIBUJOS DE PICASSO, 1961

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DIBUJOS DE PICASSO, 1961

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DIBUJOS DE PICASSO (II), 1961

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DIBUJOS DE PICASSO (II), 1961

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Tête sur fond noir

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Tête sur fond noir

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Voyeur sous le lit et artiste en bonnet de..., 1968

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Voyeur sous le lit et artiste en bonnet de..., 1968

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Figure, 1949

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Figure, 1949

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PORTRAIT IMAGINAIRE

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PORTRAIT IMAGINAIRE

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圆鼻子的脸, 1971

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圆鼻子的脸, 1971

Sale Date: June 13, 2023

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杰奎琳在画架前（A.R.333）, 1956

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杰奎琳在画架前（A.R.333）, 1956

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闪亮的猫头鹰（A.R.285）, 1955

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闪亮的猫头鹰（A.R.285）, 1955

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Modèle accroupi, nu vu des dos et tete..., 1953

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Modèle accroupi, nu vu des dos et tete..., 1953

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Diurnes Découpages et Photographies, 1962

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Diurnes Découpages et Photographies, 1962

Sale Date: June 17, 2023

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FEMME ASSISE EN TAILLEUR: GENEVIEVE LAPORTE, 1951

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FEMME ASSISE EN TAILLEUR: GENEVIEVE LAPORTE, 1951

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Mère et enfant, 1943

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Mère et enfant, 1943

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Lion, 1967

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Lion, 1967

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Tête de Faune, 1956

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Tête de Faune, 1956

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Tete D' Homme Barbu, 1966

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Tete D' Homme Barbu, 1966

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La Danse Du Berger, 1959

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La Danse Du Berger, 1959

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Le Viol, IV, Plate 29 From

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Le Viol, IV, Plate 29 From "La Suite..., 1933

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Exposition de céramiques de Vallauris Pâques, 1958

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Exposition de céramiques de Vallauris Pâques, 1958

Sale Date: June 10, 2023

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Picasso, 1962

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Picasso, 1962

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Peintre, modèle au chapeau de paille, et..., 1968

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Peintre, modèle au chapeau de paille, et..., 1968

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La femme au miroir (Woman at the Mirror) (M. , 1950

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La femme au miroir (Woman at the Mirror) (M. , 1950

Sale Date: June 8, 2023

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