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 vieux roi, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Le vieux roi, 1959

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Deux femmes se reposant, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Deux femmes se reposant, 1931

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Scène de Tauromachie, 1959

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Scène de Tauromachie, 1959

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Cavalier faun, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Cavalier faun, 1956

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Quatre personnages, 1968

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Quatre personnages, 1968

Sale Date: December 8, 2022

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Colombe volant (à l'Arc-en-ciel), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Colombe volant (à l'Arc-en-ciel), 1952

Sale Date: November 18, 2022

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Yan barbu (A. R. 513) Terre de Faïence Pitcher, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Yan barbu (A. R. 513) Terre de Faïence Pitcher, 1963

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Étude pour la chèvre, 1950

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Étude pour la chèvre, 1950

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Tarasque, 1954

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Tarasque, 1954

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Visage au nez noir, 1969

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Visage au nez noir, 1969

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Femmes fleurs, 1948

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Femmes fleurs, 1948

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Char et personnages, 1967

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Char et personnages, 1967

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Bouquet de fleurs, 1946

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Bouquet de fleurs, 1946

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Femme nue assise, les jambes croisées, 1941

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Femme nue assise, les jambes croisées, 1941

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Raphaël et la Fornarina XVIII, Pl.313 from..., 1968

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Raphaël et la Fornarina XVIII, Pl.313 from..., 1968

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Peintre au travail observé par un..., 1927–1928

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Peintre au travail observé par un..., 1927–1928

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Homme, femme et enfant. Étude pour le..., 1968

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Homme, femme et enfant. Étude pour le..., 1968

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Vieux peintre et vieux modèle, 1969

Pablo Picasso

Vieux peintre et vieux modèle, 1969

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Deux femmes, une en raccourci et une repliée , 1971

Pablo Picasso

Deux femmes, une en raccourci et une repliée , 1971

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Homme nu assis en tailleur, et deux femmes,..., 1968

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Homme nu assis en tailleur, et deux femmes,..., 1968

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Sculptor et modèle admirant une tête..., 1933

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Sculptor et modèle admirant une tête..., 1933

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Raphaël et la Fornarina XIII, Pl.308 from..., 1968

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Raphaël et la Fornarina XIII, Pl.308 from..., 1968

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Trois acteurs, Pl.77 from 'La Suite Vollard', 1933

Pablo Picasso

Trois acteurs, Pl.77 from 'La Suite Vollard', 1933

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Quatre femmes et tête Rembranesque, Pl.42..., 1970

Pablo Picasso

Quatre femmes et tête Rembranesque, Pl.42..., 1970

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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