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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Femme Accoudee (19), 1959

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Femme Accoudee (19), 1959

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Portrait en Deux Parties Noire et Blanche, 1924

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Portrait en Deux Parties Noire et Blanche, 1924

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Femme sur la Plage Jouant au Balloon, 1933

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Femme sur la Plage Jouant au Balloon, 1933

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Vase de Fleurs, 1969

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Vase de Fleurs, 1969

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Femme a la Collerette, 1938

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Femme a la Collerette, 1938

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L'Age de Soleil (Pour Roby), 1950

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L'Age de Soleil (Pour Roby), 1950

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Femme Accoudee A Sa Fenetre, 1936

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Femme Accoudee A Sa Fenetre, 1936

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Israel Museum

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Israel Museum

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La Couple, 1930

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La Couple, 1930

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Visage Masque, 1947

Pablo Picasso

Visage Masque, 1947

Sale Date: February 9, 2023

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Couple en Carrosse et Pauvre Pieton, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Couple en Carrosse et Pauvre Pieton, 1968

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Figure (Portrait of Marie Therese Walter),..., 1936

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Figure (Portrait of Marie Therese Walter),..., 1936

Sale Date: January 31, 2023

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Femme Blonde Au Fauteuil D'Osier, 1939

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Femme Blonde Au Fauteuil D'Osier, 1939

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Visage d'homme, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Visage d'homme, 1966

Sale Date: February 15, 2023

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Grosse prostituée sur les genoux d'un barbu

Pablo Picasso

Grosse prostituée sur les genoux d'un barbu

Sale Date: January 26, 2023

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Untitled, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Untitled, 1968

Sale Date: February 9, 2023

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A los toros, 1961

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A los toros, 1961

Sale Date: February 8, 2023

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Mottled figh, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Mottled figh, 1952

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Tete de roi (Carneval de Nice), 1951

Pablo Picasso

Tete de roi (Carneval de Nice), 1951

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“Exposition Peinture, Vallauris, 1956” , 1956

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“Exposition Peinture, Vallauris, 1956” , 1956

Sale Date: January 31, 2023

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“Le Vieux Roi”, January 6th 59, 1959

Pablo Picasso

“Le Vieux Roi”, January 6th 59, 1959

Sale Date: January 31, 2023

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Portrait-Charge d'un Personnage

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Portrait-Charge d'un Personnage

Sale Date: January 30, 2023

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La ronde de la jeunesse

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La ronde de la jeunesse

Sale Date: February 4, 2023

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Bearded man's wife (pitcher), 1953

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Bearded man's wife (pitcher), 1953

Sale Date: February 4, 2023

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