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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Ecce Homo, after Rembrandt, from Series 156, 1970

Pablo Picasso

Ecce Homo, after Rembrandt, from Series 156, 1970

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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Flûtiste et dormeuse XVI, 1933

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Flûtiste et dormeuse XVI, 1933

Sale Date: November 2, 2021

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Vallauris 1960 Exposition (Bloch 1290; Baer..., 1960

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Vallauris 1960 Exposition (Bloch 1290; Baer..., 1960

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Visage d'homme, 1914

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Visage d'homme, 1914

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Chouette, 1948

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Chouette, 1948

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Bibi la purée, 1901

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Bibi la purée, 1901

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Le Muguet, 1961

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Le Muguet, 1961

Sale Date: November 5, 2021

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Arlequin à la guitare, 1918

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Arlequin à la guitare, 1918

Sale Date: November 5, 2021

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Composition, 1948

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Composition, 1948

Sale Date: October 27, 2021

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JACQUELINE AU BANDEAU III, 1962

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JACQUELINE AU BANDEAU III, 1962

Sale Date: November 10, 2021

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Le repos du sculpteur devant un nu a la..., 1933

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Le repos du sculpteur devant un nu a la..., 1933

Sale Date: October 30, 2021

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347 Series No.291, 1968

Pablo Picasso

347 Series No.291, 1968

Sale Date: October 30, 2021

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Jeune Femme de L'ile de Majorque

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Jeune Femme de L'ile de Majorque

Sale Date: October 30, 2021

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La danse des faunes, 1957

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La danse des faunes, 1957

Sale Date: October 29, 2021

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El rapto de Jezabel por Quirón el centauro..., 1962

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El rapto de Jezabel por Quirón el centauro..., 1962

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Scène de plage, 1956

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Scène de plage, 1956

Sale Date: November 7, 2021

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Le Vieux Roi,

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Le Vieux Roi," 1959, 1959

Sale Date: October 26, 2021

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Trois femmes jouant, 1932

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Trois femmes jouant, 1932

Sale Date: October 26, 2021

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Visage noir 1948, 1948

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Visage noir 1948, 1948

Sale Date: November 9, 2021

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Corrida, 1953

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Corrida, 1953

Sale Date: November 9, 2021

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Paysage, 1953

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Paysage, 1953

Sale Date: November 9, 2021

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Untitled (From: La Célestine), 1968

Pablo Picasso

Untitled (From: La Célestine), 1968

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Femme nue de dos, 1956

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Femme nue de dos, 1956

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Portrait d'un Bourgeois hollandais, 1968

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Portrait d'un Bourgeois hollandais, 1968

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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