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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L'Age de Soleil, 1950

Pablo Picasso

L'Age de Soleil, 1950

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Lithographe IV Cover, 1956-1963, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Lithographe IV Cover, 1956-1963, 1963

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Le Peintre et son Modele, 1964

Pablo Picasso

Le Peintre et son Modele, 1964

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Femme Assise et Femme Etendue, 1932

Pablo Picasso

Femme Assise et Femme Etendue, 1932

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

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Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

After Pablo Picasso

Untitled, from Imaginary Portraits (American , 1972

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Minotaure et nue, from La flute double, 1967

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Minotaure et nue, from La flute double, 1967

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Profil de femme from Six Contes Fantastiques, 1944

Pablo Picasso

Profil de femme from Six Contes Fantastiques, 1944

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Exposition de Vallauris, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Exposition de Vallauris, 1955

Sale Date: December 3, 2022

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Rembrand et Deux Femmes, 1934

Pablo Picasso

Rembrand et Deux Femmes, 1934

Sale Date: December 3, 2022

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IMAGINARY PORTRAITS, 1969

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IMAGINARY PORTRAITS, 1969

Sale Date: November 27, 2022

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DIVERS, 1956

Pablo Picasso

DIVERS, 1956

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FEMME REGARDANT PAR LA FENÊTRE (WOMAN..., 1959

Pablo Picasso

FEMME REGARDANT PAR LA FENÊTRE (WOMAN..., 1959

Sale Date: November 27, 2022

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Le Chapeau Au Raisins

Pablo Picasso

Le Chapeau Au Raisins

Sale Date: November 15, 2022

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Lobsters and Fish (Homards et poissons), 1949

Pablo Picasso

Lobsters and Fish (Homards et poissons), 1949

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Festival Mondial de la Jeunesse et des..., 1951

Pablo Picasso

Festival Mondial de la Jeunesse et des..., 1951

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Deux masques, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Deux masques, 1963

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Toros en Vallauris, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Toros en Vallauris, 1955

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Service Visage Noir, Madoura, 1948, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Service Visage Noir, Madoura, 1948, 1948

Sale Date: November 13, 2022

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Visage no 202, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage no 202, 1963

Sale Date: December 2, 2022

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Vieux sculpteur et jeune modèle avec le..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Vieux sculpteur et jeune modèle avec le..., 1933

Sale Date: December 2, 2022

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Étreinte, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Étreinte, 1963

Sale Date: December 2, 2022

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Courtisane au lit avec un visiteur, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Courtisane au lit avec un visiteur, 1968

Sale Date: December 2, 2022

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Jardins à Vallauris, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Jardins à Vallauris, 1953

Sale Date: December 2, 2022

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