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 de femme, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme, 1933

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Tête de femme au chapeau, from Le Marteau..., 1945

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme au chapeau, from Le Marteau..., 1945

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Potrait de Jacqueline accoudée, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Potrait de Jacqueline accoudée, 1959

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Deux femmes près de la fenêtre, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Deux femmes près de la fenêtre, 1959

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Séries 347, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Séries 347, 1968

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Femme nue cueillant des fleurs: two prints, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Femme nue cueillant des fleurs: two prints, 1962

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Toros en Vallauris 1960, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Toros en Vallauris 1960, 1960

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Visiteurs divins à l'atelier, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Visiteurs divins à l'atelier, 1955

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Le Chevalier et le page, 1951

Pablo Picasso

Le Chevalier et le page, 1951

Sale Date: October 22, 2021

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Face No. 144, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Face No. 144, 1963

Sale Date: October 24, 2021

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Crane de Chevre sur la Table, 1953

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Crane de Chevre sur la Table, 1953

Sale Date: October 24, 2021

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Autoportrait, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Autoportrait, 1955

Sale Date: October 20, 2021

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Femme debout, 1945

Pablo Picasso

Femme debout, 1945

Sale Date: October 20, 2021

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Cendrier Oiseau au ver, circa 1952, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Cendrier Oiseau au ver, circa 1952, 1952

Sale Date: October 16, 2021

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Deux danseurs, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Deux danseurs, 1956

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Vase with Pastel Decoration, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Vase with Pastel Decoration, 1953

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Visage No. 202

Pablo Picasso

Visage No. 202

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Minotaure et nue, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Minotaure et nue, 1933

Sale Date: October 28, 2021

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Pablo Picasso, a 'Losange au Masque' relief...

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso, a 'Losange au Masque' relief...

Sale Date: October 24, 2021

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A GOLD

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A GOLD "GRAND FAUNE" PENDANT, PABLO PICASSO

Sale Date: October 12, 2021

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A GOLD

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A GOLD "TAUREAU" PENDANT, PABLO PICASSO

Sale Date: October 12, 2021

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L'atelier de Cannes - 1956, 1956

Pablo Picasso

L'atelier de Cannes - 1956, 1956

Sale Date: October 12, 2021

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Du mode d’emploi d’une jeune femme, L133..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Du mode d’emploi d’une jeune femme, L133..., 1968

Sale Date: November 6, 2021

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Eau-forte 10 aout 1968 IV, L.266 from Series , 1968

Pablo Picasso

Eau-forte 10 aout 1968 IV, L.266 from Series , 1968

Sale Date: November 6, 2021

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