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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Sculpteur à mi-corps au Travail., 1933

Pablo Picasso

Sculpteur à mi-corps au Travail., 1933

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Femme nue à la source., 1962

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue à la source., 1962

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Femme Couchée et Homme au Grand Chapeau., 1959

Pablo Picasso

Femme Couchée et Homme au Grand Chapeau., 1959

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Taureau, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Taureau, 1952

Sale Date: May 3, 2022

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso "Profil de Jacqueline" Plate..., 1956

Sale Date: April 23, 2022

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso "Oiseau" Plate, Madoura (A.R...., 1963

Sale Date: April 23, 2022

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso "Picador II" Lithograph, 1961

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso "Tete de Chevre" Plate, Madoura

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso "Tete de Chevre" Plate,..., 1950

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso "Hibou Brilliant" Platter,..., 1955

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Tete de Chevre de Profil, 1950

Pablo Picasso

Tete de Chevre de Profil, 1950

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Pablo Picasso Pitcher, Fish Subject, 1947–1971

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Pitcher, Fish Subject, 1947–1971

Sale Date: April 21, 2022

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Three Figures on Trampoline, 1947–1971

Pablo Picasso

Three Figures on Trampoline, 1947–1971

Sale Date: April 21, 2022

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Pablo Picasso Pitcher, Heads, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Pitcher, Heads, 1956

Sale Date: April 21, 2022

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Femme acrobate au maquillage pailleté et..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Femme acrobate au maquillage pailleté et..., 1968

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Figures and Cavalier, 1947–1971

Pablo Picasso

Figures and Cavalier, 1947–1971

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Banderilles

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Banderilles

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Exposition Vallauris 1957, 1957

Pablo Picasso

Exposition Vallauris 1957, 1957

Sale Date: April 29, 2022

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Oiseau avec Touffe ashtray, 1952

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Oiseau avec Touffe ashtray, 1952

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Oiseau Au Soleil ashtray, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau Au Soleil ashtray, 1952

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Oiseau sur la branche ashtray, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau sur la branche ashtray, 1952

Sale Date: April 29, 2022

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La Danse du Berger (Tanz der Hirten), 1959

Pablo Picasso

La Danse du Berger (Tanz der Hirten), 1959

Sale Date: May 3, 2022

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Don Quixote, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Don Quixote, 1955

Sale Date: May 3, 2022

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Nu Debout et Tête de Profil, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Nu Debout et Tête de Profil, 1968

Sale Date: May 11, 2022

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