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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带签名的重要铜版画《西班牙画家将裸女肖像绘成虬髯大汉》, 1968

Pablo Picasso

带签名的重要铜版画《西班牙画家将裸女肖像绘成虬髯大汉》, 1968

Sale Date: July 29, 2021

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Visage aux yeux ronds, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux yeux ronds, 1960

Sale Date: August 5, 2021

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Petite Chouette, 1949

Pablo Picasso

Petite Chouette, 1949

Sale Date: August 5, 2021

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Picador, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Picador, 1955

Sale Date: August 5, 2021

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La danse des faunes, 1957

Pablo Picasso

La danse des faunes, 1957

Sale Date: August 8, 2021

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Danseuse naine, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Danseuse naine, 1966

Sale Date: August 8, 2021

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La Vieillesse: Femme regardant trois..., 1966–1968

Pablo Picasso

La Vieillesse: Femme regardant trois..., 1966–1968

Sale Date: August 8, 2021

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Peintre au travail, 1965–1966

Pablo Picasso

Peintre au travail, 1965–1966

Sale Date: August 8, 2021

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Terre de faïence pitcher

Pablo Picasso

Terre de faïence pitcher "Pitcher Yan", 1952

Sale Date: July 28, 2021

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Terre de faïence vase

Pablo Picasso

Terre de faïence vase "Chouetton", 1952

Sale Date: July 28, 2021

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Terre de faïence platter

Pablo Picasso

Terre de faïence platter "Hibou Mat", 1955

Sale Date: July 28, 2021

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Face Tankard (Chope Visage), 1959

Pablo Picasso

Face Tankard (Chope Visage), 1959

Sale Date: August 11, 2021

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LE PICADOR II - 6.3.61 II/21.4.61 (FROM 'A..., 1961

Pablo Picasso

LE PICADOR II - 6.3.61 II/21.4.61 (FROM 'A..., 1961

Sale Date: August 11, 2021

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MARIE-THÉRÈSE REGARDENT SON CORPS SCULPTÉ..., 1933

Pablo Picasso

MARIE-THÉRÈSE REGARDENT SON CORPS SCULPTÉ..., 1933

Sale Date: August 11, 2021

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Untitled, 1969

Pablo Picasso

Untitled, 1969

Sale Date: July 25, 2021

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Le Barbu

Pablo Picasso

Le Barbu

Sale Date: July 16, 2021

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Minotaure Embrassant une Femme

Pablo Picasso

Minotaure Embrassant une Femme

Sale Date: July 28, 2021

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owl, 1951

Pablo Picasso

owl, 1951

Sale Date: August 8, 2021

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Maske, 1900–1999

Attributed to Pablo Picasso

Maske, 1900–1999

Sale Date: July 31, 2021

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Picador II

Pablo Picasso

Picador II

Sale Date: July 24, 2021

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Artist with Easel, 1927

Pablo Picasso

Artist with Easel, 1927

Sale Date: July 24, 2021

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La danse des faunes, 1957

Pablo Picasso

La danse des faunes, 1957

Sale Date: July 23, 2021

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Le Tricorne (portfolio of 32), 1920

Pablo Picasso

Le Tricorne (portfolio of 32), 1920

Sale Date: July 16, 2021

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Le Vieux Roi, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Le Vieux Roi, 1959

Sale Date: July 16, 2021

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