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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Verre, 1915

Pablo Picasso

Verre, 1915

Sale Date: March 3, 2023

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Grande vase aux femmes voilées (A.R. 116), 1950

Pablo Picasso

Grande vase aux femmes voilées (A.R. 116), 1950

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Visage (Pour le Docteur Noyer), 1970

Pablo Picasso

Visage (Pour le Docteur Noyer), 1970

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Visage barbu (Mon Ami Meyer), 1970

Pablo Picasso

Visage barbu (Mon Ami Meyer), 1970

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Amazone, 1920

Pablo Picasso

Amazone, 1920

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pl.7 from Odalisque

Pablo Picasso

pl.7 from Odalisque "347 series" with two..., 1968

Sale Date: February 22, 2023

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Tête d'Histrion or Le Danseur, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Tête d'Histrion or Le Danseur, 1965

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Vénus et l'amour, dans le style ''Bon..., 1968

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Vénus et l'amour, dans le style ''Bon..., 1968

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Femme au Balcon, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Femme au Balcon, 1960

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Portrait of Paul Éluard, from Sillage..., 1958

Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Paul Éluard, from Sillage..., 1958

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Les Deux Saltimbanques: L'Arlequin et Sa..., 1960

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Les Deux Saltimbanques: L'Arlequin et Sa..., 1960

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Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1964

Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1964

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Scène de Théâtre: Amazone, Vénus de foire,..., 1966

Pablo Picasso

Scène de Théâtre: Amazone, Vénus de foire,..., 1966

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Football, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Football, 1961

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Degas Imaginant: Scène de séduction entre..., 1971

Pablo Picasso

Degas Imaginant: Scène de séduction entre..., 1971

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Peintre entre Deux Modèles, from Le..., 1927

Pablo Picasso

Peintre entre Deux Modèles, from Le..., 1927

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Le Chevalier et le Page, 1951

Pablo Picasso

Le Chevalier et le Page, 1951

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Vallauris Exhibition 1955, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Vallauris Exhibition 1955, 1955

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Colombe de la Paix, 1961

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Colombe de la Paix, 1961

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Clowne et Acrobate, from Verve 29-30, 1954

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Clowne et Acrobate, from Verve 29-30, 1954

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Le Clowne, 1968

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Le Clowne, 1968

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Deux Femmes Nues, 1930

Pablo Picasso

Deux Femmes Nues, 1930

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Colombe volant (à l'Arc en Ciel), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Colombe volant (à l'Arc en Ciel), 1952

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Two Faces Viewing Corpulent Nude, 2ème état, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Two Faces Viewing Corpulent Nude, 2ème état, 1970

Sale Date: February 24, 2023

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