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 Repos du Sculpteur, III, aus

Pablo Picasso

Le Repos du Sculpteur, III, aus "La Suite..., 1933

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Modèle contemplant un Groupe sculpté, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Modèle contemplant un Groupe sculpté, 1933

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Le Repos du Sculpteur devant une Bacchanale..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Le Repos du Sculpteur devant une Bacchanale..., 1933

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Grande Maternité, 1963

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Grande Maternité, 1963

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“Galerie Louise Leiris, 1962–1963

Pablo Picasso

“Galerie Louise Leiris, 1962–1963

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“Le Vieux Roi”, 1959

Pablo Picasso

“Le Vieux Roi”, 1959

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Petite chouette.

Pablo Picasso

Petite chouette.

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Yan barbu, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Yan barbu, 1963

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Picador, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Picador, 1952

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Taureau sous un arbre, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Taureau sous un arbre, 1952

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Vecchio che pensa alla pittura antica:..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Vecchio che pensa alla pittura antica:..., 1968

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La Toilette, 1923

Pablo Picasso

La Toilette, 1923

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Visage aux palmes (recto); Masque brilliant..., 1956

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux palmes (recto); Masque brilliant..., 1956

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Visage de faune tourmenté (Alain Ramié 320), 1956

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Visage de faune tourmenté (Alain Ramié 320), 1956

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Visage géométrique (Alain Ramié 356), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Visage géométrique (Alain Ramié 356), 1956

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Visage et hibou (Alain Ramié 407), 1958

Pablo Picasso

Visage et hibou (Alain Ramié 407), 1958

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Colombe bleu, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Colombe bleu, 1961

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Painter and circus, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Painter and circus, 1970

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Peintre et modèle qui se cache le visage, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Peintre et modèle qui se cache le visage, 1968

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Painter and Ninph, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Painter and Ninph, 1970

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Mythological figures, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Mythological figures, 1970

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Painter and model, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Painter and model, 1970

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Couple, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Couple, 1970

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Bacchanale, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Bacchanale, 1955

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