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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Pablo Picasso (99,446 results)
Visage de face', 1960

Pablo Picasso

Visage de face', 1960

Sale Date: April 27, 2023

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Visage aux mains', 1956

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux mains', 1956

Sale Date: April 27, 2023

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Madoura', 1961

Pablo Picasso

Madoura', 1961

Sale Date: April 27, 2023

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Tête de femme, de profil, from La suite des..., 1913

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme, de profil, from La suite des..., 1913

Sale Date: April 25, 2023

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Salomé, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Salomé, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

Sale Date: April 25, 2023

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Saltimbanque au Repos, from La Suite des..., 1905

Pablo Picasso

Saltimbanque au Repos, from La Suite des..., 1905

Sale Date: April 25, 2023

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Le vieux Roi, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Le vieux Roi, 1959

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Minotaure caressant une Femme from La Suite..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Minotaure caressant une Femme from La Suite..., 1933

Sale Date: April 18, 2023

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Grande Maternité, 1963

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Grande Maternité, 1963

Sale Date: April 18, 2023

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Jacqueline at the Easel, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Jacqueline at the Easel, 1956

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Plate

Pablo Picasso

Plate "F" from Service visage noir (A.R.39), 1948

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Maison de la Pensee Francaise

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Maison de la Pensee Francaise

Sale Date: April 22, 2023

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156 Series, No. 30

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156 Series, No. 30

Sale Date: April 22, 2023

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Kinesias and His Family

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Kinesias and His Family

Sale Date: April 22, 2023

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Vallauris Exhibition 1955, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Vallauris Exhibition 1955, 1955

Sale Date: April 26, 2023

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Tete de femme, face et profil from PICASSO..., 1925

Pablo Picasso

Tete de femme, face et profil from PICASSO..., 1925

Sale Date: April 29, 2023

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Femme nue et Amour, 1969

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue et Amour, 1969

Sale Date: April 29, 2023

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Jacqueline's profile (plate), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Jacqueline's profile (plate), 1956

Sale Date: April 29, 2023

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Tête (A. R. 372)

Pablo Picasso

Tête (A. R. 372)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Chouette (A. R. 605)

Pablo Picasso

Chouette (A. R. 605)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs (A. R. 237)

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Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs (A. R. 237)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Hibou marron noir (A. R. 123)

Pablo Picasso

Hibou marron noir (A. R. 123)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Tête d’homme aux cheveux longs (A. R. 596)

Pablo Picasso

Tête d’homme aux cheveux longs (A. R. 596)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Chouette marron/noir (A. R. 134)

Pablo Picasso

Chouette marron/noir (A. R. 134)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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