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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Corrida aux personnages (A.R. 104), 1950

Pablo Picasso

Corrida aux personnages (A.R. 104), 1950

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Cavalier et cheval (A.R. 138), 1952

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Cavalier et cheval (A.R. 138), 1952

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Visage (A.R. 288), 1955

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Visage (A.R. 288), 1955

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Tête de faune, 1961

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Tête de faune, 1961

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Scène de tauromachie (A.R. 393), 1957

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Scène de tauromachie (A.R. 393), 1957

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Centaure (A.R. 102), 1950

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Centaure (A.R. 102), 1950

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Sujet poisson (A.R. 139), 1952

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Sujet poisson (A.R. 139), 1952

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Taureau, marli aux feuilles (A.R. 394), 1957

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Taureau, marli aux feuilles (A.R. 394), 1957

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La danseuse naine

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La danseuse naine" (from the Barcelona..., 1966

Sale Date: May 19, 2021

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Nude sitting leaning

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Nude sitting leaning

Sale Date: May 11, 2021

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Paloma et sa Poupée, Fond blanc, 1952

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Paloma et sa Poupée, Fond blanc, 1952

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Couple et flûtistes au bord d'un lac..., 1959

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Couple et flûtistes au bord d'un lac..., 1959

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Colombe à la lucarne, 1949

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Colombe à la lucarne, 1949

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Chouette, 1969

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Chouette, 1969

Sale Date: May 25, 2021

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Deux Femmes au Miroir, plate III from Sable..., 1965

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Deux Femmes au Miroir, plate III from Sable..., 1965

Sale Date: May 25, 2021

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Picador et taureau, 1959

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Picador et taureau, 1959

Sale Date: May 25, 2021

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Visage aux yeux rieurs (A.R. 608), 1969

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Visage aux yeux rieurs (A.R. 608), 1969

Sale Date: May 25, 2021

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Tête de Chèvre en Profil plate, 1952

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Tête de Chèvre en Profil plate, 1952

Sale Date: May 14, 2021

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Chouette vase, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Chouette vase, 1968

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Figures No. 28 plate, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Figures No. 28 plate, 1963

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Picasso. Affiche Exposition de Ceramiques, 1958

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Picasso. Affiche Exposition de Ceramiques, 1958

Sale Date: May 11, 2021

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Pablo Piccasso (1881-1973), Sculpteur devant sa...

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Piccasso (1881-1973), Sculpteur devant sa...

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Jeux de pages, 1951

Pablo Picasso

Jeux de pages, 1951

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6 etchings from:

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6 etchings from: "Le Cocu magnifique", 1966

Sale Date: May 11, 2021

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