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 Sauvetage III

Pablo Picasso

Le Sauvetage III

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Spectacle de Gladiateurs (from Series 347)

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Spectacle de Gladiateurs (from Series 347)

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Les Transparents

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Les Transparents

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Gentilhomme à la pipe et Maja nue (from Series...

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Gentilhomme à la pipe et Maja nue (from Series...

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A los Toros avec Picasso, 1961

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A los Toros avec Picasso, 1961

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Portrait de Françoise, 1946

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Portrait de Françoise, 1946

Sale Date: November 19, 2022

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Femme de dos, 1940

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Femme de dos, 1940

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Homme assis, 1971

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Homme assis, 1971

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Etude pour

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Etude pour "La guenon et son petit", 1951

Sale Date: November 19, 2022

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Nu assis, 1963

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Nu assis, 1963

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Homme à la pipe et nu assis, 1969

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Homme à la pipe et nu assis, 1969

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Mousquetaire, buste, 1967

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Mousquetaire, buste, 1967

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Femme nue debout appuyée, 1923

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Femme nue debout appuyée, 1923

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Tête de faune, 1958

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Tête de faune, 1958

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Tête de Marianne

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Tête de Marianne

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Femme dans un fauteuil, 1927

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Femme dans un fauteuil, 1927

Sale Date: November 14, 2022

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Tripode (A.R. 125), 1951

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Tripode (A.R. 125), 1951

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La belle et la Bête, 1933

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La belle et la Bête, 1933

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Femme debout, 1945

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Femme debout, 1945

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PABLO PICASSO VISAGE POTTERY JUG, 1955

Pablo Picasso

PABLO PICASSO VISAGE POTTERY JUG, 1955

Sale Date: November 1, 2022

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Fillette aux nattes et au chapeau vert, 1956

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Fillette aux nattes et au chapeau vert, 1956

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Homme à la moustache, 1970

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Homme à la moustache, 1970

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Le peintre et son modèle, 1964

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Le peintre et son modèle, 1964

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Bras vertical, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Bras vertical, 1959

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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