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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Dos mujeres desnudas, 1971

Pablo Picasso

Dos mujeres desnudas, 1971

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Sin título, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Sin título, 1966

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Assiette Visage noir, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Assiette Visage noir, 1948

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Assiette Visage noir, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Assiette Visage noir, 1948

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Assiette Visage noir, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Assiette Visage noir, 1948

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Le Cavalier, 1968

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Le Cavalier, 1968

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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Visage, 1967

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Visage, 1967

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Le Clown, 1968

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Le Clown, 1968

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Dove of Peace, 1961

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Dove of Peace, 1961

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La Ronde de la Jeunesse, 1961

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La Ronde de la Jeunesse, 1961

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Bouquet de Fleurs, 1958

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Bouquet de Fleurs, 1958

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La Folie, 1958

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La Folie, 1958

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Tête de Buffon, 1964

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Tête de Buffon, 1964

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Côte d'Azur, 1962

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Côte d'Azur, 1962

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Intériour Rouge avec un Transatlantique Bleu, 1960

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Intériour Rouge avec un Transatlantique Bleu, 1960

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Tête de Femme au Chapeau, 1956

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Tête de Femme au Chapeau, 1956

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Venus et l'Amour voleur de miel, 1960

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Venus et l'Amour voleur de miel, 1960

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Tête de Faune, 1950

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Tête de Faune, 1950

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Le Homard, 1945

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Le Homard, 1945

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Vollard et son Chat, 1960

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Vollard et son Chat, 1960

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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Portrait de Mlle Dora Maar, 1960

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Portrait de Mlle Dora Maar, 1960

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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L'Étreinte, 1950

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L'Étreinte, 1950

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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Series 347:045 (Caricature du général de..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Series 347:045 (Caricature du général de..., 1968

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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60 Years of Graphic Works (Visage), 1966

Pablo Picasso

60 Years of Graphic Works (Visage), 1966

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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