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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Faunes et Flore, 1960

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Faunes et Flore, 1960

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Bouquet de Fleurs (See. Czwiklitzer 147)

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Bouquet de Fleurs (See. Czwiklitzer 147)

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Poster for the Guggenheim New York (See...

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Poster for the Guggenheim New York (See...

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Visage, 1967

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Visage, 1967

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Ronde de la Jeunesse au Soleil, 1959

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Ronde de la Jeunesse au Soleil, 1959

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Le Clown et l'Harlequin (Czwiklitzer p.437), 1971

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Le Clown et l'Harlequin (Czwiklitzer p.437), 1971

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L'Arlequin et sa Compagne, 1960

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L'Arlequin et sa Compagne, 1960

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Le Clown, 1968

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Le Clown, 1968

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Portrait de Dora Maar au Chignon I (Tête de..., 1936

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Portrait de Dora Maar au Chignon I (Tête de..., 1936

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Painter, Nude Model Wearing Hat and..., 1968

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Painter, Nude Model Wearing Hat and..., 1968

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Exposition 55 Vallauris (Bloch 1268), 1955

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Exposition 55 Vallauris (Bloch 1268), 1955

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Le Pigeonneau (Bloch 326), 1939

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Le Pigeonneau (Bloch 326), 1939

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Composition, 1948

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Composition, 1948

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Les Ménines et la Vie (Bloch 857, Cramer 97), 1958

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Les Ménines et la Vie (Bloch 857, Cramer 97), 1958

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Les Jeux et la lecture (Bloch 741; Mourlot..., 1953

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Les Jeux et la lecture (Bloch 741; Mourlot..., 1953

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Flutiste et Trois Femmes Nues (Bloch 144), 1932

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Flutiste et Trois Femmes Nues (Bloch 144), 1932

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Homme Devoilant une Femme (Bloch 138; Baer..., 1931

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Homme Devoilant une Femme (Bloch 138; Baer..., 1931

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Le Bellier (Blcoh 349, Baer 579 II A/C), 1936

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Le Bellier (Blcoh 349, Baer 579 II A/C), 1936

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La Sauterelle (Blcoh 358, Baer 605 II A/C), 1936

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La Sauterelle (Blcoh 358, Baer 605 II A/C), 1936

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Sabartès Jaime, 1957

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Sabartès Jaime, 1957

Sale Date: September 22, 2021

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Chant funèbre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Bièvres

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Chant funèbre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Bièvres

Sale Date: September 22, 2021

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Le Clown, 1962

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Le Clown, 1962

Sale Date: September 22, 2021

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Pablo Picasso

"Portrait de Vollard III", 1937

Sale Date: September 22, 2021

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Grand Profil, 1947

Pablo Picasso

Grand Profil, 1947

Sale Date: October 7, 2021

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