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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Minotaure et nue, from La flute double, 1967

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Minotaure et nue, from La flute double, 1967

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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La Femme, 1976

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La Femme, 1976

Sale Date: May 26, 2022

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Femme Accroupi, 1954

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Femme Accroupi, 1954

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Femme Au Chapeau Gris, 1946

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Femme Au Chapeau Gris, 1946

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L'Age de Soleil (Pour Roby), 1968

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L'Age de Soleil (Pour Roby), 1968

Sale Date: May 26, 2022

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Young Spanish Peasant, 1974

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Young Spanish Peasant, 1974

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Quatre visage, 1959

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Quatre visage, 1959

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Oiseau polychrome, 1947

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Oiseau polychrome, 1947

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Les Trois Graces, II, 1922–1923

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Les Trois Graces, II, 1922–1923

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Visage (A.R. 290), 1955

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Visage (A.R. 290), 1955

Sale Date: May 24, 2022

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Round Dish from the Black Face Service, 1948

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Round Dish from the Black Face Service, 1948

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Jeune fille de profil couronnée de fleurs, 1944

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Jeune fille de profil couronnée de fleurs, 1944

Sale Date: May 26, 2022

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PERSONNAGES ET NU, 1960

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PERSONNAGES ET NU, 1960

Sale Date: May 24, 2022

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Prostituée et Reître, from Séries 347 (Bloch , 1968

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Prostituée et Reître, from Séries 347 (Bloch , 1968

Sale Date: June 11, 2022

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Square Head of a Man (from the Carmen..., 1949

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Square Head of a Man (from the Carmen..., 1949

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Shakespeare, 1965

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Shakespeare, 1965

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Oval Head with Dividing Line (from the..., 1949

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Oval Head with Dividing Line (from the..., 1949

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Peintre et modele avec un noeud dans les..., 1964

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Peintre et modele avec un noeud dans les..., 1964

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Tete de Bouffon, 1964

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Tete de Bouffon, 1964

Sale Date: May 25, 2022

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Corrida aux Personnages charger, 1950

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Corrida aux Personnages charger, 1950

Sale Date: March 8, 2022

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Danseurs, 1956

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Danseurs, 1956

Sale Date: March 8, 2022

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Tête d'homme barbu, 1966

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Tête d'homme barbu, 1966

Sale Date: June 3, 2022

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Profil de Jacqueline Roque

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Profil de Jacqueline Roque

Sale Date: June 3, 2022

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Homme assis, 1969

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Homme assis, 1969

Sale Date: May 26, 2022

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