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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Visage de femme (A. R. 220)

Pablo Picasso

Visage de femme (A. R. 220)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Quatre profils enlacés (see A. R. 87)

Pablo Picasso

Quatre profils enlacés (see A. R. 87)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Visage brun/bleu (Alain Ramié 2)

Pablo Picasso

Visage brun/bleu (Alain Ramié 2)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Taureau (A. R. 233)

Pablo Picasso

Taureau (A. R. 233)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Arène (A. R. 406)

Pablo Picasso

Arène (A. R. 406)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Visage aux yeux rieurs (A. R. 608)

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux yeux rieurs (A. R. 608)

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Visage D'Homme, 1953.

Pablo Picasso

Visage D'Homme, 1953.

Sale Date: April 19, 2023

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Raphaël et la Fornarina I-XX, from the 347..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Raphaël et la Fornarina I-XX, from the 347..., 1968

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Visage (A.R. 290), 1955

Pablo Picasso

Visage (A.R. 290), 1955

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Nature morte au citron et pichet rouge, 1964

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Nature morte au citron et pichet rouge, 1964

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Buste de jeune femme de trois quarts, 1906

Pablo Picasso

Buste de jeune femme de trois quarts, 1906

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Groupe avec vieillard à la torche sur un âne , 1968

Pablo Picasso

Groupe avec vieillard à la torche sur un âne , 1968

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Le Bellier, from Eaux-Fortes originales pour , 1936

Pablo Picasso

Le Bellier, from Eaux-Fortes originales pour , 1936

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Bouquet dans un vase, 1959–1964

Pablo Picasso

Bouquet dans un vase, 1959–1964

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Marie-Thérèse en femme torero, from the..., 1934

Pablo Picasso

Marie-Thérèse en femme torero, from the..., 1934

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Minotaure caressant une dormeuse, from the..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Minotaure caressant une dormeuse, from the..., 1933

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Faune dévoilant une dormeuse, from the..., 1936

Pablo Picasso

Faune dévoilant une dormeuse, from the..., 1936

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Souvenirs: Cirque, avec el gigante, et..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Souvenirs: Cirque, avec el gigante, et..., 1968

Sale Date: April 19, 2023

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Françoise, 1946

Pablo Picasso

Françoise, 1946

Sale Date: April 19, 2023

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Le visage de la paix

Pablo Picasso

Le visage de la paix

Sale Date: April 19, 2023

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12 avril 1970, 1970

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12 avril 1970, 1970

Sale Date: April 21, 2023

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Madame Ricardo Canals

Pablo Picasso

Madame Ricardo Canals

Sale Date: April 18, 2023

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Le Vieux Roi, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Le Vieux Roi, 1959

Sale Date: April 20, 2023

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Le Peintre, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Le Peintre, 1963

Sale Date: April 20, 2023

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