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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Visage aux yeux rieurs, 1969

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux yeux rieurs, 1969

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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Pierrot au loup, 1917–1918

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Pierrot au loup, 1917–1918

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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Tête de Femme Fond noir (B. 376; M. 2), 1945

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Tête de Femme Fond noir (B. 376; M. 2), 1945

Sale Date: June 10, 2022

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Paloma et sa poupée sur fond noir, 1952

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Paloma et sa poupée sur fond noir, 1952

Sale Date: June 17, 2022

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Degas imaginant, fête champêtre, avec bal..., 1971

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Degas imaginant, fête champêtre, avec bal..., 1971

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Degas imaginant, scène de seduction entre..., 1971

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Degas imaginant, scène de seduction entre..., 1971

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Maison close, Degas avec son album,..., 1971

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Maison close, Degas avec son album,..., 1971

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Marin rêveur avec deux femmes, couple,..., 1970

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Marin rêveur avec deux femmes, couple,..., 1970

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Artiste peintre avec un modèle qui boude..., 1968

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Artiste peintre avec un modèle qui boude..., 1968

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Autour d'El Greco et de Rembrandt: Portraits , 1968

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Autour d'El Greco et de Rembrandt: Portraits , 1968

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Baigneuses à la piscine (Bathers at the..., 1932

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Baigneuses à la piscine (Bathers at the..., 1932

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Salomé, from La Suite des Saltimbanques (The , 1905

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Salomé, from La Suite des Saltimbanques (The , 1905

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Visage (Face) (R. 288), 1955

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Visage (Face) (R. 288), 1955

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Danseurs (Dancers) (R. 386), 1956

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Danseurs (Dancers) (R. 386), 1956

Sale Date: June 15, 2022

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Jacqueline au mouchoir noir (Jacqueline with , 1958

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Jacqueline au mouchoir noir (Jacqueline with , 1958

Sale Date: June 14, 2022

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Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes..., 1936–1942

Pablo Picasso

Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes..., 1936–1942

Sale Date: June 14, 2022

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A los toros (bk by J. Sabartés w/4 works)

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A los toros (bk by J. Sabartés w/4 works)

Sale Date: May 30, 2022

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Pigeon et ses petits, 1947

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Pigeon et ses petits, 1947

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la nuit par une , 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la nuit par une , 1934

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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L'Étreinte I, 1933

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L'Étreinte I, 1933

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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Flûtiste et trois femmes nues, 1932

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Flûtiste et trois femmes nues, 1932

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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Tête d'homme, 1912

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Tête d'homme, 1912

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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Tête de Femme, de Profil, 1905

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Tête de Femme, de Profil, 1905

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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Au cirque

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Au cirque

Sale Date: June 22, 2022

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