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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Joueur de diaule et couple au bord de la mer , 1966

Pablo Picasso

Joueur de diaule et couple au bord de la mer , 1966

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Le modèle, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Le modèle, 1965

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Maternité, 1963

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Maternité, 1963

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Minotaure caressant une dormeuse (Minotaur..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Minotaure caressant une dormeuse (Minotaur..., 1933

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Variation sur Le déjeuner sur l'herbe de Manet, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Variation sur Le déjeuner sur l'herbe de Manet, 1961

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Sable mouvant, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Sable mouvant, 1966

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Quatre visages, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Quatre visages, 1959

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Picador et cheval (Picador and Horse), 1959

Pablo Picasso

Picador et cheval (Picador and Horse), 1959

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Danse nocturne avec un hibou (Noctural Dance , 1959

Pablo Picasso

Danse nocturne avec un hibou (Noctural Dance , 1959

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Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture assise..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Sculpteur, modèle et sculpture assise..., 1933

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Homme dévoilant une femme (Man Uncovering a..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Homme dévoilant une femme (Man Uncovering a..., 1933

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Quatre femmes nues et tête sculptée, from..., 1931

Pablo Picasso

Quatre femmes nues et tête sculptée, from..., 1931

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Femme, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Femme, 1955

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Paloma et sa poupée sur fond noir, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Paloma et sa poupée sur fond noir, 1952

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Portrait de Jacqueline de Face I, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Portrait de Jacqueline de Face I, 1961

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Le Repos du Sculpteur, from the Vollard suite, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Le Repos du Sculpteur, from the Vollard suite, 1931

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Les Saltimbanques, 1922

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Les Saltimbanques, 1922

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Pichet Espagnol (A.R. 244), 1954

Pablo Picasso

Pichet Espagnol (A.R. 244), 1954

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Bacchanale II, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Bacchanale II, 1955

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Femme au fauteuil et nu assis, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Femme au fauteuil et nu assis, 1963

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Pique, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Pique, 1959

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette, I, , 1934

Pablo Picasso

Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette, I, , 1934

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Peintre et modèle, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Peintre et modèle, 1966

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Grand nu de femme, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Grand nu de femme, 1962

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