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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Variation sur le thème de Don Quichotte et..., 1968

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Variation sur le thème de Don Quichotte et..., 1968

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Petite infante accroupie et courtisan, 1968

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Petite infante accroupie et courtisan, 1968

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Quatre portefaix apportant à un gentilhomme..., 1968

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Quatre portefaix apportant à un gentilhomme..., 1968

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Deux femmes batifolant sur un matelas de plage, 1968

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Deux femmes batifolant sur un matelas de plage, 1968

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Vieux marin bedonnant à la pipe et jeune..., 1968

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Vieux marin bedonnant à la pipe et jeune..., 1968

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Femme à sa toilette et homme au chapeau..., 1968

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Femme à sa toilette et homme au chapeau..., 1968

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Jeune dame espagnole, 1968

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Jeune dame espagnole, 1968

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Danse du ventre dans le désert avec..., 1968

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Danse du ventre dans le désert avec..., 1968

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Deux femmes dont une sur une sellette, un..., 1968

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Deux femmes dont une sur une sellette, un..., 1968

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Jeux de gladiateurs, 1968

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Jeux de gladiateurs, 1968

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Femme faisant la sieste, entourée de..., 1968

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Femme faisant la sieste, entourée de..., 1968

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Client bedonnant chez la Célestine, 1968

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Client bedonnant chez la Célestine, 1968

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Peintre et modèle sur un lit, 1968

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Peintre et modèle sur un lit, 1968

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Homme nu assis en tailleur et deux femmes, 1968

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Homme nu assis en tailleur et deux femmes, 1968

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Visiteurs dans l’atelier, 1966

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Visiteurs dans l’atelier, 1966

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Peintre et modèle avec une grande toile, 1965

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Peintre et modèle avec une grande toile, 1965

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Dans l’atelier : toile avec quatre femmes, 1965

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Dans l’atelier : toile avec quatre femmes, 1965

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Peintre au travail, 1965

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Peintre au travail, 1965

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette, 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette, 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette, 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette, 1934

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Sculpteur et trois danseuses sculptées, 1934

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Sculpteur et trois danseuses sculptées, 1934

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Deux modèles se regardant, 1934

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Deux modèles se regardant, 1934

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Femme assise et femme de dos, 1934

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Femme assise et femme de dos, 1934

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Taureau ailé contemplé par quatre enfants, 1934

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Taureau ailé contemplé par quatre enfants, 1934

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