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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Visage de faune, 28.6.55, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Visage de faune, 28.6.55, 1955

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Exposition Ceramique Vallauris, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Exposition Ceramique Vallauris, 1959

Sale Date: May 2, 2021

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Series 156:144 (Belle Jeune Femme à sa..., 1971

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Series 156:144 (Belle Jeune Femme à sa..., 1971

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Series 156:128 (La Fête de la patronne,..., 1971

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Series 156:128 (La Fête de la patronne,..., 1971

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Series 156:120 (Filles Entre Elles: La..., 1971

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Series 156:120 (Filles Entre Elles: La..., 1971

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Series 156:100 (Femme au Lit vec Visiteurs..., 1971

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Series 156:100 (Femme au Lit vec Visiteurs..., 1971

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Series 156:002 (Vieux Peintre et Vieux..., 1969

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Series 156:002 (Vieux Peintre et Vieux..., 1969

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Series 347:323 (Jeune Femme et Gentilhomme:..., 1968

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Series 347:323 (Jeune Femme et Gentilhomme:..., 1968

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Series 347:311 (Raphael et la Fornarina XVI)., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Series 347:311 (Raphael et la Fornarina XVI)., 1968

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Series 347:291 (Écuyère de Cirque, Homme..., 1968

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Series 347:291 (Écuyère de Cirque, Homme..., 1968

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Series 347:285 (Deux Femmes batifolant sur..., 1968

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Series 347:285 (Deux Femmes batifolant sur..., 1968

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Series 347:268 (La Démesure du Peintre)., 1968

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Series 347:268 (La Démesure du Peintre)., 1968

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Series 347:283 (Télévision, gymnastique au..., 1968

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Series 347:283 (Télévision, gymnastique au..., 1968

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Series 347:254 (Jeune Seigneur Fantoche avec , 1968

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Series 347:254 (Jeune Seigneur Fantoche avec , 1968

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Series 347:222 (Homme avec Deux Femmes Nues)., 1968

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Series 347:222 (Homme avec Deux Femmes Nues)., 1968

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Series 347:190 (La Célestine, sa Protégée,..., 1968

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Series 347:190 (La Célestine, sa Protégée,..., 1968

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Series 347:177 (Jeune Prostituée et..., 1968

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Series 347:177 (Jeune Prostituée et..., 1968

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Series 347:164 (Prostituée et marins)., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Series 347:164 (Prostituée et marins)., 1968

Sale Date: May 6, 2021

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Series 347:120 (Maja et Célestine)., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Series 347:120 (Maja et Célestine)., 1968

Sale Date: May 6, 2021

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Series 347:113 (Vieux beau saluant très bas..., 1968

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Series 347:113 (Vieux beau saluant très bas..., 1968

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Series 347:098 (Rapt, avec Celestine,..., 1968

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Series 347:098 (Rapt, avec Celestine,..., 1968

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Series 347:088 (Cape et épée: Poursuite I)., 1968

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Series 347:088 (Cape et épée: Poursuite I)., 1968

Sale Date: May 6, 2021

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Series 347:073 (Courtisane au Lit avec un..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Series 347:073 (Courtisane au Lit avec un..., 1968

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Series 347:030 (Télévision Combat de Chars à , 1968

Pablo Picasso

Series 347:030 (Télévision Combat de Chars à , 1968

Sale Date: May 6, 2021

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