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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Profil de taureau (Alain Ramié 317), 1956

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Profil de taureau (Alain Ramié 317), 1956

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Le barbu (Alain Ramié 217), 1953

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Le barbu (Alain Ramié 217), 1953

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Quatre danseurs (Alain Ramié 313), 1956

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Quatre danseurs (Alain Ramié 313), 1956

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Visage dans un ovale (Alain Ramié 274), 1955

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Visage dans un ovale (Alain Ramié 274), 1955

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Oiseau (Alain Ramié 260), 1955

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Oiseau (Alain Ramié 260), 1955

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Bouteille gravée (Alain Ramié 249), 1954

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Bouteille gravée (Alain Ramié 249), 1954

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Picador (Alain Ramié 160), 1952

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Picador (Alain Ramié 160), 1952

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Sujet poisson (Alain Ramié 139), 1952

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Sujet poisson (Alain Ramié 139), 1952

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Colombe à la lucarne (Alain Ramié 78), 1949

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Colombe à la lucarne (Alain Ramié 78), 1949

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Spectacle pour un couple. Le Capitaine Frans , 1970

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Spectacle pour un couple. Le Capitaine Frans , 1970

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Picasso Théâtre (Cramer Books 139), 1967

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Picasso Théâtre (Cramer Books 139), 1967

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Peintre et son modèle avec un spectateur..., 1965

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Peintre et son modèle avec un spectateur..., 1965

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Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la nuit par une , 1933

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Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la nuit par une , 1933

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Tête de femme, de profil (Bloch 6; Baer 7), 1905

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Tête de femme, de profil (Bloch 6; Baer 7), 1905

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Mediterranean Landscape, 1965

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Mediterranean Landscape, 1965

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Nature Morte, 1960

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Nature Morte, 1960

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(Untitled) Rare and Important Toro Vase, 1953–1958

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(Untitled) Rare and Important Toro Vase, 1953–1958

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Original erotic drypoint etching in black..., 1925

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Original erotic drypoint etching in black..., 1925

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Femme au Lit avec Visiteurs en Costume du..., 1971

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Femme au Lit avec Visiteurs en Costume du..., 1971

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Degas Viewing Partially Dressed Prostitutes', 1962

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Degas Viewing Partially Dressed Prostitutes', 1962

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Cavalier et Cheval, 1952, 1952

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Cavalier et Cheval, 1952, 1952

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Bibliothèque nationale, Derain, l'œuvre..., 1955

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Bibliothèque nationale, Derain, l'œuvre..., 1955

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Tete de Lion, 1969

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Tete de Lion, 1969

Sale Date: December 17, 2021

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La Danse des Faunes”

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La Danse des Faunes”

Sale Date: December 14, 2021

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