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 111, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage no 111, 1963

Sale Date: December 2, 2022

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Portrait de Jacqueline aux cheveux lisses, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Portrait de Jacqueline aux cheveux lisses, 1962

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Toros, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Toros, 1952

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Wood-owl with spots , 1951

Pablo Picasso

Wood-owl with spots , 1951

Sale Date: November 22, 2022

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Profil de Taureau, 1956, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Profil de Taureau, 1956, 1956

Sale Date: November 27, 2022

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Plat visage noir, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Plat visage noir, 1948

Sale Date: November 27, 2022

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette..., 1934

Pablo Picasso

Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette..., 1934

Sale Date: November 27, 2022

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Petite chouette, 1949

Pablo Picasso

Petite chouette, 1949

Sale Date: November 27, 2022

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La danse des banderilles

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La danse des banderilles

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Untitled

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Untitled

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Picador, skål, Frankrike 1955, fajans, dekor , 1955

Pablo Picasso

Picador, skål, Frankrike 1955, fajans, dekor , 1955

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Kanna, 'Têtes', Madoura, Vallauris, glaserad...

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Kanna, 'Têtes', Madoura, Vallauris, glaserad...

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Fat

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Fat "Tête de chèvre de profil", Madoura,...

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Diurnes, 1962

Pablo Picasso and André Villers

Diurnes, 1962

Sale Date: November 10, 2022

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Corrida on black ground, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Corrida on black ground, 1953

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Faun's head, 1948

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Faun's head, 1948

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Bunch with apple, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Bunch with apple, 1956

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Venus et l'Amour voleur de miel, 1960

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Venus et l'Amour voleur de miel, 1960

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Sculpteurs et trois danseuses sculptées, 1934

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Sculpteurs et trois danseuses sculptées, 1934

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Notre Dame de Vie, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Notre Dame de Vie, 1966

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Le Barbu, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Le Barbu, 1953

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Peintre au repos avec modèle assis en tailleur, 1965

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Peintre au repos avec modèle assis en tailleur, 1965

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Colombe sur lit de paille, 1949

Pablo Picasso

Colombe sur lit de paille, 1949

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Profil de Taureau clair, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Profil de Taureau clair, 1956

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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