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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Nature Morte a la Fenetre, 1932

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Nature Morte a la Fenetre, 1932

Sale Date: April 6, 2022

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Formeuse a l'Oreiller (Marie-Therese Walter), 1932

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Formeuse a l'Oreiller (Marie-Therese Walter), 1932

Sale Date: April 6, 2022

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Femme Nue Assise dans l'Herbe, 1961

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Femme Nue Assise dans l'Herbe, 1961

Sale Date: April 6, 2022

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Etudes de Mains et Colombe, 1952

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Etudes de Mains et Colombe, 1952

Sale Date: April 6, 2022

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Original sketch of a bull and a bullfighter, in...

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Original sketch of a bull and a bullfighter, in...

Sale Date: March 31, 2022

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Original sketch of a bull and a bullfighter, , 1957

Pablo Picasso

Original sketch of a bull and a bullfighter, , 1957

Sale Date: March 31, 2022

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Le Colomb Volant - The Flying Dove with..., 1952

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Le Colomb Volant - The Flying Dove with..., 1952

Sale Date: April 7, 2022

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Vase with Pastel Decoration, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Vase with Pastel Decoration, 1953

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Head, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Head, 1956

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Woman, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Woman, 1955

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs, 1954

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs, 1954

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Nature morte sur une table devant une..., 1920

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Nature morte sur une table devant une..., 1920

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Guitare et partition sur gueridon, from..., 1920

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Guitare et partition sur gueridon, from..., 1920

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Grande Tête de Femme, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Grande Tête de Femme, 1962

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Tete de Femme, 1962

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Tete de Femme, 1962

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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La Petite Baccanale

Pablo Picasso

La Petite Baccanale

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Football, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Football, 1961

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Vollard et son chat, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Vollard et son chat, 1960

Sale Date: April 19, 2022

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Sale Date: April 9, 2022

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Pablo Picasso

Senza titolo

Sale Date: April 9, 2022

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La Danse des Faunes, 1957

Pablo Picasso

La Danse des Faunes, 1957

Sale Date: April 5, 2022

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A 'Colombe sur lit de paille' dish Madoura, 1949

Pablo Picasso

A 'Colombe sur lit de paille' dish Madoura, 1949

Sale Date: April 10, 2022

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Petite Chouette [variante de A.R. 82], 1949

Pablo Picasso

Petite Chouette [variante de A.R. 82], 1949

Sale Date: April 21, 2022

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Les saltimbanques, 1922

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Les saltimbanques, 1922

Sale Date: April 13, 2022

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