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

"3 femmes nues", 1910

Sale Date: October 19, 2022

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A LOS TOROS, 1961

Pablo Picasso

A LOS TOROS, 1961

Sale Date: December 8, 2022

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Coverture du Tome I (front), from Picasso..., 1949

Pablo Picasso

Coverture du Tome I (front), from Picasso..., 1949

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Femme à sa toilette et homme au chapeau..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Femme à sa toilette et homme au chapeau..., 1968

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Bacchanale, from Picasso Lithographe III, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Bacchanale, from Picasso Lithographe III, 1956

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Picasso 347, Vol. I-II, 1969

Pablo Picasso

Picasso 347, Vol. I-II, 1969

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Nature morte au citron et pichet rouge, 1960

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Nature morte au citron et pichet rouge, 1960

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Bacchanale, from Picasso Lithographe III, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Bacchanale, from Picasso Lithographe III, 1956

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Couverture du Tome I (back), from Picasso..., 1949

Pablo Picasso

Couverture du Tome I (back), from Picasso..., 1949

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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Lithographe IV (back), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Lithographe IV (back), 1963

Sale Date: January 25, 2023

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“La Petite Corrida” from “XXe Siècle”, 1957

Pablo Picasso

“La Petite Corrida” from “XXe Siècle”, 1957

Sale Date: January 10, 2023

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“Le Vieux Roi”, 1959

Pablo Picasso

“Le Vieux Roi”, 1959

Sale Date: January 10, 2023

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L'Homme, 1965

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L'Homme, 1965

Sale Date: January 12, 2023

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Prototype miniature Richard J. Daley Plaza..., 2013

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Prototype miniature Richard J. Daley Plaza..., 2013

Sale Date: January 12, 2023

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Tête d’homme barbu, extrait de Sable Mouvant , 1965

Pablo Picasso

Tête d’homme barbu, extrait de Sable Mouvant , 1965

Sale Date: January 7, 2023

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Sleeping woman with a bird, 1970

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Sleeping woman with a bird, 1970

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Picador, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Picador, 1953

Sale Date: January 11, 2023

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Picador, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Picador, 1952

Sale Date: January 11, 2023

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Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flûtiste, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flûtiste, 1955

Sale Date: January 11, 2023

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Oiseau avec touffe, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau avec touffe, 1952

Sale Date: January 11, 2023

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Joueur de flûte et chèvre, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Joueur de flûte et chèvre, 1956

Sale Date: December 8, 2022

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Visage aux yeux rieurs (A.R. 608), 1969

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux yeux rieurs (A.R. 608), 1969

Sale Date: January 22, 2023

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