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 Repos du Sculpteur IV (Bloch 174)

Pablo Picasso

Le Repos du Sculpteur IV (Bloch 174)

Sale Date: October 5, 2022

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La Femme Aux des (Jacqueline) (blue)

Pablo Picasso

La Femme Aux des (Jacqueline) (blue)

Sale Date: October 5, 2022

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La Danseuse Naine (Czwiklitzer 234)

Pablo Picasso

La Danseuse Naine (Czwiklitzer 234)

Sale Date: October 5, 2022

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La Femme Aux des (Jacqueline) (white)

Pablo Picasso

La Femme Aux des (Jacqueline) (white)

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Femme assise à la galette des rois 冠冕女子與國王餅, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Femme assise à la galette des rois 冠冕女子與國王餅, 1965

Sale Date: October 7, 2022

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LE PICADOR II

Pablo Picasso

LE PICADOR II

Sale Date: October 1, 2022

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Nature morte, 1979

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Nature morte, 1979

Sale Date: October 4, 2022

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La petit corrida, 1957

Pablo Picasso

La petit corrida, 1957

Sale Date: October 4, 2022

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Centaure et bacchante avec un faune, 1947

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Centaure et bacchante avec un faune, 1947

Sale Date: October 4, 2022

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Untitled (Santa Claus), 1960, 1960

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Untitled (Santa Claus), 1960, 1960

Sale Date: September 29, 2022

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Sujet poisson (AR 139), 1952

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Sujet poisson (AR 139), 1952

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Picador, 1952

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Picador, 1952

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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La Comedie Humaine, 1954

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La Comedie Humaine, 1954

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Le Viol (Suite Vollard, pl. 9), 1931

Pablo Picasso

Le Viol (Suite Vollard, pl. 9), 1931

Sale Date: October 5, 2022

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‘Picador’ plate, 1952

Pablo Picasso

‘Picador’ plate, 1952

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Pablo Picasso

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Sale Date: September 30, 2022

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Visage tourmenté (A. R. 360), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Visage tourmenté (A. R. 360), 1956

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Profil de Jacqueline (A. R. 383), 1956

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Profil de Jacqueline (A. R. 383), 1956

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Hibou rouge sur fond noir (A. R. 399), 1957

Pablo Picasso

Hibou rouge sur fond noir (A. R. 399), 1957

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Profil de Jacqueline (A. R. 385), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Profil de Jacqueline (A. R. 385), 1956

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Taureau attaquant (A. R. 94), 1949

Pablo Picasso

Taureau attaquant (A. R. 94), 1949

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Visage gris (A. R. 206), 1953

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Visage gris (A. R. 206), 1953

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Vase deux anses hautes (A. R. 141), 1952

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Vase deux anses hautes (A. R. 141), 1952

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Toros (A. R. 161), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Toros (A. R. 161), 1952

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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