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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Têtes (Heads) (R. 367), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Têtes (Heads) (R. 367), 1956

Sale Date: June 15, 2021

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Visage no. 157 (Face no. 157) (R. 489), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage no. 157 (Face no. 157) (R. 489), 1963

Sale Date: June 15, 2021

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Quatre femmes nues et tête sculptée (Four..., 1934

Pablo Picasso

Quatre femmes nues et tête sculptée (Four..., 1934

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CÉRAMIQUES, 1967

Pablo Picasso

CÉRAMIQUES, 1967

Sale Date: June 4, 2021

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TELLER PETIT CHEVAL NO. 61, 1963

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TELLER PETIT CHEVAL NO. 61, 1963

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TELLER TAUREAU SOUS LARBRE, 1952

Pablo Picasso

TELLER TAUREAU SOUS LARBRE, 1952

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TELLER PICADOR, 1952

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TELLER PICADOR, 1952

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FIGURE DE PROUE, 1952

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FIGURE DE PROUE, 1952

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BLATT 143 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 143 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 101 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 101 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 98 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 98 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 76 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 76 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 75 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 75 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 71 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 71 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 69 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 69 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 37 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

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BLATT 37 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

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BLATT 34 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 34 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

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SUITE VOLLARD

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SUITE VOLLARD

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Colombe Volant, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Colombe Volant, 1961

Sale Date: June 12, 2021

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Le Dindon (Plate XIX) from Eaux-fortes..., 1941–1942

Pablo Picasso

Le Dindon (Plate XIX) from Eaux-fortes..., 1941–1942

Sale Date: June 9, 2021

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Nue et Homme Masqué, La Comedie Humaine

Pablo Picasso

Nue et Homme Masqué, La Comedie Humaine

Sale Date: May 31, 2021

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Visage de faune, 28 juin 1955, 1955

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Visage de faune, 28 juin 1955, 1955

Sale Date: June 10, 2021

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Visage de faune

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Visage de faune

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Visage de faune, 1955

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Visage de faune, 1955

Sale Date: June 10, 2021

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