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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Orage, Enlèvement, Poursuite, from Series 347, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Orage, Enlèvement, Poursuite, from Series 347, 1968

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Pablo Picasso, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso, 1970

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Odalisque au coussin (dalla Serie 156), 1970

Pablo Picasso

Odalisque au coussin (dalla Serie 156), 1970

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Toros, 1952

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Toros, 1952

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Têtes, 1956

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Têtes, 1956

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Picador, 1955

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Picador, 1955

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Tête d'Homme Barbu, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Tête d'Homme Barbu, 1966

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Femme nue à la source, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue à la source, 1962

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Modèle et grande sculpture de dos, from La..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Modèle et grande sculpture de dos, from La..., 1933

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Rembrandt et têtes de femme, from La Suite..., 1934

Pablo Picasso

Rembrandt et têtes de femme, from La Suite..., 1934

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Grand Air from Les yeux fertiles, 1936

Pablo Picasso

Grand Air from Les yeux fertiles, 1936

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Rembrandt à la palette, from La Suite Vollard, 1934

Pablo Picasso

Rembrandt à la palette, from La Suite Vollard, 1934

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Femme accoudée, sculpture de dos et tête..., 1933

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Femme accoudée, sculpture de dos et tête..., 1933

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Dans l'atelier de Picasso, 1957

Pablo Picasso

Dans l'atelier de Picasso, 1957

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Minotaure et femme derrière un rideau, from..., 1933

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Minotaure et femme derrière un rideau, from..., 1933

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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La Pique cassée, 1959

Pablo Picasso

La Pique cassée, 1959

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Tête de femme de trois-quarts, 1953

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Tête de femme de trois-quarts, 1953

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Sueño y mentira de Franco: one print, 1937

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Sueño y mentira de Franco: one print, 1937

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Salomé, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Salomé, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Nature morte au compotier, 1908–1909

Pablo Picasso

Nature morte au compotier, 1908–1909

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Femme accoudée, sculpture de dos et tête..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Femme accoudée, sculpture de dos et tête..., 1933

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Modèle posant et peintre, 1966

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Modèle posant et peintre, 1966

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Peintre Rembrandtesque avec son Modèle, from , 1968

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Peintre Rembrandtesque avec son Modèle, from , 1968

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Crâne de chèvre sur la table, 1950

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Crâne de chèvre sur la table, 1950

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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