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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Tête d'homme barbu à la cigarette, 1964

Pablo Picasso

Tête d'homme barbu à la cigarette, 1964

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Homme à la guitare, 1912–1913

Pablo Picasso

Homme à la guitare, 1912–1913

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Verre et bouteille sur une table, 1913

Pablo Picasso

Verre et bouteille sur une table, 1913

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Homme à la pipe, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Homme à la pipe, 1968

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Profil, 1930

Pablo Picasso

Profil, 1930

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Femme accroupie en costume turc II..., 1955

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Femme accroupie en costume turc II..., 1955

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Le repas de l’acrobate, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Le repas de l’acrobate, 1905

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Mousquetaire à la pipe II, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Mousquetaire à la pipe II, 1968

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Peintre et Modèle

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Peintre et Modèle

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Femme nue

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Femme nue

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Series 156

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Series 156

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Modèle contemplant un groupe sculpté

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Modèle contemplant un groupe sculpté

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Tête de Faune

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Tête de Faune

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Grand Maternité

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Grand Maternité

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Betsabée

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Betsabée

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Le Modèle et Deux Personnages

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Le Modèle et Deux Personnages

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Vollard et son Chat

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Vollard et son Chat

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Le Peintre

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Le Peintre

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Bacchanal with Goat and Owl, 1962

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Bacchanal with Goat and Owl, 1962

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Two Satyrs and Goat, 1958–1961

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Two Satyrs and Goat, 1958–1961

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Senza titolo

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Senza titolo

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La Fille de L'Artiste, 1942

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La Fille de L'Artiste, 1942

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La Plongeuse, 1932

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La Plongeuse, 1932

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Sculpteur, Modèle Couché et Sculpture, Plate , 1933

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Sculpteur, Modèle Couché et Sculpture, Plate , 1933

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