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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Visage d'homme (A.R. 539), 1966

Pablo Picasso

Visage d'homme (A.R. 539), 1966

Sale Date: December 15, 2022

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Vase au décor pastel (A.R. 190), 1953

Pablo Picasso

Vase au décor pastel (A.R. 190), 1953

Sale Date: December 15, 2022

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Exposition Vallauris 1963, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Exposition Vallauris 1963, 1963

Sale Date: December 13, 2022

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Homme a la tranche de pastèque, 1967

Pablo Picasso

Homme a la tranche de pastèque, 1967

Sale Date: December 15, 2022

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Lithographe IV Cover, 1956-1963, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Lithographe IV Cover, 1956-1963, 1963

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Picasso 347, Volumes I & II, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Picasso 347, Volumes I & II, 1970

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Visage, 1954

Pablo Picasso

Visage, 1954

Sale Date: December 21, 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: December 21, 2022

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La Biche, 1936

Pablo Picasso

La Biche, 1936

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Le Peintre et son Modele II, 1964

Pablo Picasso

Le Peintre et son Modele II, 1964

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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La Célestine, 1971

Pablo Picasso

La Célestine, 1971

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Lithographe IV (back), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Lithographe IV (back), 1963

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Oiseau à la huppe, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau à la huppe, 1952

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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La Petite Colombe (frontispice) from Picasso , 1949

Pablo Picasso

La Petite Colombe (frontispice) from Picasso , 1949

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

After Pablo Picasso

Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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L'Arriveé du Chevalier, 1951

After Pablo Picasso

L'Arriveé du Chevalier, 1951

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (from the , 1972

After Pablo Picasso

Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (from the , 1972

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Visage #72, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage #72, 1963

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Tête de Bouffon, 1964

Pablo Picasso

Tête de Bouffon, 1964

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Tetes, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Tetes, 1956

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Deux Saltimbanques, from Picasso Venti..., 1955

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Deux Saltimbanques, from Picasso Venti..., 1955

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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Picador, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Picador, 1952

Sale Date: December 21, 2022

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“Festival mundial de la juventud y de los..., 1951

Pablo Picasso

“Festival mundial de la juventud y de los..., 1951

Sale Date: December 13, 2022

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