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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Motif spiralé (A.R. 404), 1957

Pablo Picasso

Motif spiralé (A.R. 404), 1957

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Le Peintre et son Modele, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Le Peintre et son Modele, 1965

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Visage D'Homme (A.R. 539), 1966

Pablo Picasso

Visage D'Homme (A.R. 539), 1966

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Petit Soleil (A.R. 545), 1968–1969

Pablo Picasso

Petit Soleil (A.R. 545), 1968–1969

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Picador, Femme et Cheval, 1959

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Picador, Femme et Cheval, 1959

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L'homme au chien, 1914

Pablo Picasso

L'homme au chien, 1914

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Petit Soleil (A.R. 544), 1968–1969

Pablo Picasso

Petit Soleil (A.R. 544), 1968–1969

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Le Repas Frugal, 1904

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Le Repas Frugal, 1904

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Réflexion du peintre sur la vie from the 60..., 1967

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Réflexion du peintre sur la vie from the 60..., 1967

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Wood-Owl Woman (Alain Ramié 119), 1951

Pablo Picasso

Wood-Owl Woman (Alain Ramié 119), 1951

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La Faune (Maeght 2101), 1958

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La Faune (Maeght 2101), 1958

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Sur la plage II from Quatre Lithographies..., 1921

Pablo Picasso

Sur la plage II from Quatre Lithographies..., 1921

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Bird on a Branch (Alain Ramié 175), 1952

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Bird on a Branch (Alain Ramié 175), 1952

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Le vieux roi (Bloch 869 Mourlot 317), 1959

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Le vieux roi (Bloch 869 Mourlot 317), 1959

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Le Bain from La Suite des Saltimbanques..., 1905

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Le Bain from La Suite des Saltimbanques..., 1905

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Mes Dessins D'Antibes (Not in Cramer bk.), 1958

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Mes Dessins D'Antibes (Not in Cramer bk.), 1958

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Le Cavalier from Quatre Lithographies (Bloch , 1921

Pablo Picasso

Le Cavalier from Quatre Lithographies (Bloch , 1921

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Bird under the Sun (Alain Ramié 174), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Bird under the Sun (Alain Ramié 174), 1952

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A Los Toros avec Picasso by Jaime Sabartés..., 1961

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A Los Toros avec Picasso by Jaime Sabartés..., 1961

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Réflexion du vieux peintre sur la femme from , 1967

Pablo Picasso

Réflexion du vieux peintre sur la femme from , 1967

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Faunes et Flore D'Antibes (Not in Cramer bk.), 1958

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Faunes et Flore D'Antibes (Not in Cramer bk.), 1958

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Fish Subject (Alain Ramié 139), 1952

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Fish Subject (Alain Ramié 139), 1952

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Au Cirque (Bloch 9 Baer 11), 1905

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Au Cirque (Bloch 9 Baer 11), 1905

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Tarasque (Alain Ramié 247), 1954

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Tarasque (Alain Ramié 247), 1954

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