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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Dormeuse (Bloch 1083; Baer 1319), 1952

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Dormeuse (Bloch 1083; Baer 1319), 1952

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Chouette (Alain Ramié 543), 1968

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Chouette (Alain Ramié 543), 1968

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Célestine et fille avec un chat et un jeune..., 1968

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Célestine et fille avec un chat et un jeune..., 1968

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Visage aux Points (Alain Ramié 610), 1969

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Visage aux Points (Alain Ramié 610), 1969

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Motifs no. 66 (Alain Ramié 472)

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Motifs no. 66 (Alain Ramié 472)

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La Fenêtre de l’atelier La Californie..., 1956

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La Fenêtre de l’atelier La Californie..., 1956

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Buste de femme à la queue de cheval:..., 1955

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Buste de femme à la queue de cheval:..., 1955

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Arène (Alain Ramié 406), 1958

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Arène (Alain Ramié 406), 1958

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Vénus et l'amour voleur de miel (d'après..., 1957

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Picasso Peintures 1955 - 1956 (Bloch..., 1955–1956

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Picasso Peintures 1955 - 1956 (Bloch..., 1955–1956

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Visage aux mains (Alain Ramié 321), 1956

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Visage aux mains (Alain Ramié 321), 1956

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En la taberna. Pêcheurs Catalans en bordée..., 1934

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En la taberna. Pêcheurs Catalans en bordée..., 1934

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Picador et taureau (Alain Ramié 438), 1959

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Picador et taureau (Alain Ramié 438), 1959

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Femmes à leur toilette (Ba. 1037; PP. L-016), 1956

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Femmes à leur toilette (Ba. 1037; PP. L-016), 1956

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Visage et tauromachie (Baer 1362), 1960–1961

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Visage et tauromachie (Baer 1362), 1960–1961

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1955

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1955

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Visage à la grille (Alain Ramié 351), 1956

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Visage à la grille (Alain Ramié 351), 1956

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Chope visage (Alain Ramié 432), 1959

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Chope visage (Alain Ramié 432), 1959

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Paysage (Alain Ramié 208), 1953

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Paysage (Alain Ramié 208), 1953

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Joueur de flûte et chèvre (Alain Ramie 382), 1956

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Joueur de flûte et chèvre (Alain Ramie 382), 1956

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Vallauris (Alain Ramié 330), 1956

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Vallauris (Alain Ramié 330), 1956

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Le Barbu (Alain Ramié 217), 1953

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Le Barbu (Alain Ramié 217), 1953

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Portrait de femme II (Bloch 780; Mourlot 272), 1955

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Portrait de femme II (Bloch 780; Mourlot 272), 1955

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Pichet têtes (Alain Ramié 221), 1953

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Pichet têtes (Alain Ramié 221), 1953

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