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 no. 192 (A. R. 492), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage no. 192 (A. R. 492), 1963

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Faune dévoilant une femme, from the Vollard..., 1936

Pablo Picasso

Faune dévoilant une femme, from the Vollard..., 1936

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Tête polychrome (A. R. 455), 1961

Pablo Picasso

Tête polychrome (A. R. 455), 1961

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Profil de Jacqueline (A. R. 457), 1962

Pablo Picasso

Profil de Jacqueline (A. R. 457), 1962

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Exposition Poteries Fleurs Parfums (Première , 1948

Pablo Picasso

Exposition Poteries Fleurs Parfums (Première , 1948

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Banderilles, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Banderilles, 1959

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Chouette (A. R. 543), 1968

Pablo Picasso

Chouette (A. R. 543), 1968

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, 1931

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Tête sur fond noir, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Tête sur fond noir, 1953

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Sujet colombe, mat (A. R. 433), 1959

Pablo Picasso

Sujet colombe, mat (A. R. 433), 1959

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (A. R. 517), 1964

Pablo Picasso

Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (A. R. 517), 1964

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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La source (A. R. 225), 1954

Pablo Picasso

La source (A. R. 225), 1954

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Bouteille gravée (A. R. 249), 1954

Pablo Picasso

Bouteille gravée (A. R. 249), 1954

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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En la taberna. Pêcheurs Catalans en bordée, 1934

Pablo Picasso

En la taberna. Pêcheurs Catalans en bordée, 1934

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, 1955

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Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, 1955

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Centaure (A. R. 102), 1950

Pablo Picasso

Centaure (A. R. 102), 1950

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Jouer de flûte et cavaliers (A. R. 340), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Jouer de flûte et cavaliers (A. R. 340), 1956

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Motif spiralé (A. R. 404), 1957

Pablo Picasso

Motif spiralé (A. R. 404), 1957

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Jacqueline au chapeau noir, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Jacqueline au chapeau noir, 1962

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Nature morte au citron et pichet rouge, 1964

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Nature morte au citron et pichet rouge, 1964

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Jeune Homme présentant un Miroir, ou un..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Jeune Homme présentant un Miroir, ou un..., 1968

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Pichet à glace (A. R. 143), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Pichet à glace (A. R. 143), 1952

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Toros en Vallauris, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Toros en Vallauris, 1960

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Peintre et modèle au fauteuil, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Peintre et modèle au fauteuil, 1963

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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