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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Sculpteur et trois danseuses sculptées,..., 1934

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Sculpteur et trois danseuses sculptées,..., 1934

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Ecuyère, bonhomme et mousquetaire, from:..., 1968

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Ecuyère, bonhomme et mousquetaire, from:..., 1968

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Fumeur V, 1964

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Fumeur V, 1964

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Peintre et sa toile, 1963

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Peintre et sa toile, 1963

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Théatre: Adieu à l'écuyère, from: Séries 347, 1968

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Théatre: Adieu à l'écuyère, from: Séries 347, 1968

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette II, , 1933

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette II, , 1933

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Femme au lit rêvant: hommes et femmes, from: , 1968

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Femme au lit rêvant: hommes et femmes, from: , 1968

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Tête de Bouffon - Carnival 1965, 1965

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Tête de Bouffon - Carnival 1965, 1965

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Composition, 1971

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Composition, 1971

Sale Date: March 23, 2021

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Fernand Mourlot: Picasso lithographe I-IV. 4...

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Fernand Mourlot: Picasso lithographe I-IV. 4...

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J. Sabartes: A los Toros avec Picasso. Monte...

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J. Sabartes: A los Toros avec Picasso. Monte...

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Wilhelm Boeck: Pablo Picasso: Linogravures....

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Wilhelm Boeck: Pablo Picasso: Linogravures....

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GRANDE MATERNITÉ, 1963

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GRANDE MATERNITÉ, 1963

Sale Date: April 7, 2021

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Femme assise dans un fauteuil noir..., 1962

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Femme assise dans un fauteuil noir..., 1962

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Femme nue couchée au collier (Marie-Thérèse), 1932

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Femme nue couchée au collier (Marie-Thérèse), 1932

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Grande tête de femme au chapeau orné, 1964

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Grande tête de femme au chapeau orné, 1964

Sale Date: March 30, 2021

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L'Homme au mouton, 1942

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L'Homme au mouton, 1942

Sale Date: March 30, 2021

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A complete set of 24 silver plates, 1955–1956

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A complete set of 24 silver plates, 1955–1956

Sale Date: March 25, 2021

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Femme assise dans un fauteuil, 1941

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Femme assise dans un fauteuil, 1941

Sale Date: March 25, 2021

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Portrait de Françoise, 1948

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Portrait de Françoise, 1948

Sale Date: March 25, 2021

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La fille et le moine, 1959

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La fille et le moine, 1959

Sale Date: March 26, 2021

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Visage sur carton ondulé, 1956

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Visage sur carton ondulé, 1956

Sale Date: March 26, 2021

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Visage aux mains, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux mains, 1956

Sale Date: March 26, 2021

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Taureaux dans un paysage, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Taureaux dans un paysage, 1959

Sale Date: March 26, 2021

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