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 (99,446 results)
男子像

Pablo Picasso

男子像

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加州速写9

Pablo Picasso

加州速写9

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Sur la plage, femme au miroir et deux..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Sur la plage, femme au miroir et deux..., 1968

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Le Festin, from Lysistrata, 1934

Pablo Picasso

Le Festin, from Lysistrata, 1934

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Quatre visages (A. R. 437), 1959

Pablo Picasso

Quatre visages (A. R. 437), 1959

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Visage no. 203 (A. R. 496), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage no. 203 (A. R. 496), 1963

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Visage (A. R. 288), 1955

Pablo Picasso

Visage (A. R. 288), 1955

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Peintre longiline avec des femmes, dont une..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Peintre longiline avec des femmes, dont une..., 1968

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Sculpteurs, modèles et sculpture, from the..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Sculpteurs, modèles et sculpture, from the..., 1933

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Femme et enfant, 1923

Pablo Picasso

Femme et enfant, 1923

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Femme assise en pyjame de plage. II, 1962

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Femme assise en pyjame de plage. II, 1962

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Portrait de Jacqueline, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Portrait de Jacqueline, 1956

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Pichet gravé gris (A.R. 246), 1954

Pablo Picasso

Pichet gravé gris (A.R. 246), 1954

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Visage (A. R. 290), 1955

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Visage (A. R. 290), 1955

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Vallauris (A. R. 331), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Vallauris (A. R. 331), 1956

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La famille, 1953

Pablo Picasso

La famille, 1953

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La magie quotidienne, 1968

Pablo Picasso

La magie quotidienne, 1968

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Scène de plage, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Scène de plage, 1956

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Plongeurs, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Plongeurs, 1956

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Three figures on trampoline, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Three figures on trampoline, 1956

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Étreinte VII, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Étreinte VII, 1963

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Nature morte à la bouteille de marc, 1911

Pablo Picasso

Nature morte à la bouteille de marc, 1911

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Peintre et modèle appuyé sur un coussin, 1964

Pablo Picasso

Peintre et modèle appuyé sur un coussin, 1964

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Visage au nez noir (A.R. 609), 1969

Pablo Picasso

Visage au nez noir (A.R. 609), 1969

Sale Date: December 15, 2022

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