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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Suite « Les 156 »

Pablo Picasso

Suite « Les 156 »

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Flute Player and Goat

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Flute Player and Goat

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Visage de Femme, 1949

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Visage de Femme, 1949

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Eurydice piquee par un serpent, from Ovid's..., 1930

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Eurydice piquee par un serpent, from Ovid's..., 1930

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Visage, 1954

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Visage, 1954

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Picador, 1952

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Picador, 1952

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Le Picador II, from A los Toros avec Picasso, 1961

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Le Picador II, from A los Toros avec Picasso, 1961

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Exposition Vallauris (Bloch 1301; Baer..., 1964

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Exposition Vallauris (Bloch 1301; Baer..., 1964

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Cavalier et Cheval (Alain Ramié 594),..., 1968–1969

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Cavalier et Cheval (Alain Ramié 594),..., 1968–1969

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Nu assis entouré d'Esquisses de Bêtes et..., 1927

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Nu assis entouré d'Esquisses de Bêtes et..., 1927

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Le Vieux Roi (Bloch 869; Mourlot 317), 1959, 1959

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Le Vieux Roi (Bloch 869; Mourlot 317), 1959, 1959

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Portrait de Paul Eluard (Poster for the..., 1956

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Portrait de Paul Eluard (Poster for the..., 1956

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Peintre devant son Tableau, from Le..., 1927

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Peintre devant son Tableau, from Le..., 1927

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Sin título

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Sin título

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Bull head, 1993

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Bull head, 1993

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Jeune garçon et femme assise, 1967

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Jeune garçon et femme assise, 1967

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Nu Debout, 1943

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Nu Debout, 1943

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Femme assise (Dora Maar), 1955

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Femme assise (Dora Maar), 1955

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Faune aux branchages, 1948

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Faune aux branchages, 1948

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Le Peintre, 1957

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Le Peintre, 1957

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Joueur de diaule, 1947

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Joueur de diaule, 1947

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Visage brun/bleu, 1947

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Visage brun/bleu, 1947

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Composition from the serie “La comedie..., 1954

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Composition from the serie “La comedie..., 1954

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Fumeur Barbu, 1964

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Fumeur Barbu, 1964

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