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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Le Peintre et son modèle, 1930

Pablo Picasso

Le Peintre et son modèle, 1930

Sale Date: November 25, 2022

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Chez les filles : le client, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Chez les filles : le client, 1960

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Bacchanale avec enfant aux cymbales, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Bacchanale avec enfant aux cymbales, 1955

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Figure, ou Baigneuse à la cabine, 1929

Pablo Picasso

Figure, ou Baigneuse à la cabine, 1929

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Deux sculpteurs devant une statue, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Deux sculpteurs devant une statue, 1931

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Sculpteur à mi-corps au travail, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Sculpteur à mi-corps au travail, 1933

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L’Atelier, 1927

Pablo Picasso

L’Atelier, 1927

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Les Trois amies, 1923

Pablo Picasso

Les Trois amies, 1923

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Femme nue assise devant un rideau, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue assise devant un rideau, 1931

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Femme nue devant une statue, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue devant une statue, 1931

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Le Saltimbanque, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Le Saltimbanque, 1905

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La Famille de saltimbanques au macaque, 1905

Pablo Picasso

La Famille de saltimbanques au macaque, 1905

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Homme et femme, 1927

Pablo Picasso

Homme et femme, 1927

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Sculpteur, modèle couché et sculpture, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Sculpteur, modèle couché et sculpture, 1933

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La Danse barbare, 1905

Pablo Picasso

La Danse barbare, 1905

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Femme nue se couronnant de fleurs, 1930

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue se couronnant de fleurs, 1930

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Modèle accoudé sur un tableau, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Modèle accoudé sur un tableau, 1933

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Au bain, 1930

Pablo Picasso

Au bain, 1930

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Salomé, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Salomé, 1905

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Tête de femme : Madeleine, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme : Madeleine, 1905

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Femme nue couronnée de fleurs, 1930

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue couronnée de fleurs, 1930

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Le Repos du sculpteur devant le petit torse, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Le Repos du sculpteur devant le petit torse, 1933

Sale Date: November 25, 2022

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Suite Vollard 1930-1937, third edition, 1930–1937

Pablo Picasso

Suite Vollard 1930-1937, third edition, 1930–1937

Sale Date: January 15, 2023

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Suite Vollard 1930-1937, third edition, 1930–1937

Pablo Picasso

Suite Vollard 1930-1937, third edition, 1930–1937

Sale Date: January 15, 2023

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