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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Femme du barbu (A. R. 193), 1953

Pablo Picasso

Femme du barbu (A. R. 193), 1953

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Sujet colombe (A. R. 435), 1959

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Sujet colombe (A. R. 435), 1959

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Visage aux yeux rieurs (A. R. 608), 1969

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Visage aux yeux rieurs (A. R. 608), 1969

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Visage dans un ovale (A. R. 274), 1955

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Visage dans un ovale (A. R. 274), 1955

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Picador (A. R. 160), 1952

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Picador (A. R. 160), 1952

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Tête (A. R. 367), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Tête (A. R. 367), 1956

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Petite chouette (Alain Ramié 82), 1949

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Petite chouette (Alain Ramié 82), 1949

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Tête de chèvre de profil (A. R. 106), 1950

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Tête de chèvre de profil (A. R. 106), 1950

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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Poteries de Picasso

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Poteries de Picasso

Sale Date: September 21, 2022

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Portrait imaginaire - 1969, 1969

Pablo Picasso

Portrait imaginaire - 1969, 1969

Sale Date: September 27, 2022

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"Degas imaginant, scene de seduction entre deux...

Sale Date: September 20, 2022

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Le Vieux Roi, 1959

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Le Vieux Roi, 1959

Sale Date: September 24, 2022

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3 femmes nues, 1910

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3 femmes nues, 1910

Sale Date: September 19, 2022

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Femmes à leur toilette, avec Degas rêvant, 1971

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Femmes à leur toilette, avec Degas rêvant, 1971

Sale Date: October 1, 2022

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Centaure et Bacchante, 1947

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Centaure et Bacchante, 1947

Sale Date: October 1, 2022

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Picador, 1955

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Picador, 1955

Sale Date: September 21, 2022

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Odalisque au Collier de Chien, from 'Séries 156'

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Odalisque au Collier de Chien, from 'Séries 156'

Sale Date: September 21, 2022

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Deux femmes se reposant, from 'La Suite..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Deux femmes se reposant, from 'La Suite..., 1933

Sale Date: September 21, 2022

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La Danse Barbare, from 'La Suite des..., 1905

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La Danse Barbare, from 'La Suite des..., 1905

Sale Date: September 21, 2022

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Vase Au Bouquet, 1956

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Vase Au Bouquet, 1956

Sale Date: September 17, 2022

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Petit Soleil (A.R. 546), 1968–1969

Pablo Picasso

Petit Soleil (A.R. 546), 1968–1969

Sale Date: September 29, 2022

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Le Clown, 1961

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Le Clown, 1961

Sale Date: September 29, 2022

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Masque (A.R. 310), 1956

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Masque (A.R. 310), 1956

Sale Date: September 29, 2022

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Baccanale à l'acrobate, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Baccanale à l'acrobate, 1959

Sale Date: September 29, 2022

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