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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POUR JOHN

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POUR JOHN

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"PALOMA ET SA POUPEE

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Femme du Barbu – 1953 (# AR 193), 1953

Pablo Picasso

Femme du Barbu – 1953 (# AR 193), 1953

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Bacchanale – circa 1955, 1955

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Bacchanale – circa 1955, 1955

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Tête de chèvre de profil, 1952

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Tête de chèvre de profil, 1952

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Les faunes et la Centauresse – 1947, 1947

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Les faunes et la Centauresse – 1947, 1947

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Nature morte aux poires et au pichet - Circa , 1960

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Nature morte aux poires et au pichet - Circa , 1960

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Visage N°202, 1963

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Visage N°202, 1963

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Picador et Taureau, 1959

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Picador et Taureau, 1959

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Personnages et cavalier, 1968

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Personnages et cavalier, 1968

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Visage au nez vert (#AR 585) - 1968. Décembre, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Visage au nez vert (#AR 585) - 1968. Décembre, 1968

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Chouette aux tâches, 1951

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Chouette aux tâches, 1951

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Profil de Jaqueline, 1956

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Profil de Jaqueline, 1956

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Oiseau au ver - 1952 (# A, 1952

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Oiseau au ver - 1952 (# A, 1952

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Chouetton, 1952

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Chouetton, 1952

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Vase deux anses hautes, 1952

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Vase deux anses hautes, 1952

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Petit carre avec soleil tile, 1971

Pablo Picasso

Petit carre avec soleil tile, 1971

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Tete d'homme tile, 1968–1969

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Tete d'homme tile, 1968–1969

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Taureau, marli aux feuilles plate, 1957

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Taureau, marli aux feuilles plate, 1957

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Yan barbu pitcher, 1963

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Yan barbu pitcher, 1963

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Tetes pitcher, 1956

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Tetes pitcher, 1956

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Sujet poisson pitcher, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Sujet poisson pitcher, 1952

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Picador bowl, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Picador bowl, 1953

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