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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Composition, 1936

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Composition, 1936

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Assiette modèle « Quatre profils enlacés » en...

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Assiette modèle « Quatre profils enlacés » en...

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Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud (M. 342; B. 1007), 1960

Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud (M. 342; B. 1007), 1960

Sale Date: May 15, 2023

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Femme au Balcon (B. 1289; M. 335)., 1960

Pablo Picasso

Femme au Balcon (B. 1289; M. 335)., 1960

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Assiette modèle « Quatre profils enlacés »..., 1958

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Assiette modèle « Quatre profils enlacés »..., 1958

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Homme et femme, 1967

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Homme et femme, 1967

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Grand vase, femmes nues, 1950

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Grand vase, femmes nues, 1950

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Tête, 1960

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Tête, 1960

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Scène mythologique et tauromachique, 1952

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Scène mythologique et tauromachique, 1952

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Tête de femme, 1926

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Tête de femme, 1926

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Visage souriant / Motifs informels, 1958

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Visage souriant / Motifs informels, 1958

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Nature morte, oeufs, boudin et fourchette, 1957

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Nature morte, oeufs, boudin et fourchette, 1957

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Le Joueur de clarinette, 1932

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Le Joueur de clarinette, 1932

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Irène, 1953

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Irène, 1953

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Vera Nemtchinova et Félix dansant, 1919

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Vera Nemtchinova et Félix dansant, 1919

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Femme étendue, 1932

Pablo Picasso

Femme étendue, 1932

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Nu au miroir, 1921

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Nu au miroir, 1921

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Morphinomanes, 1900

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Morphinomanes, 1900

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Fauno con rami, 1948

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Fauno con rami, 1948

Sale Date: March 23, 2023

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La Serrure pile carpet, 1950

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La Serrure pile carpet, 1950

Sale Date: April 28, 2023

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Femme Nue Devant une Statue, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Femme Nue Devant une Statue, 1931

Sale Date: May 2, 2023

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4 mai 1945

Pablo Picasso

4 mai 1945

Sale Date: May 27, 2023

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sculpteur, modèle et buste sculpté

Pablo Picasso

sculpteur, modèle et buste sculpté

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Aquatinte et eau-forte 19 mai 1968 I

Pablo Picasso

Aquatinte et eau-forte 19 mai 1968 I

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