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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Colombe à la lucarne (A. R. 78), 1948

Pablo Picasso

Colombe à la lucarne (A. R. 78), 1948

Sale Date: February 23, 2021

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Colombe mate (A. R. 77), 1948

Pablo Picasso

Colombe mate (A. R. 77), 1948

Sale Date: February 23, 2021

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Service visage noir (A. R. 40), 1948

Pablo Picasso

Service visage noir (A. R. 40), 1948

Sale Date: February 23, 2021

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Service visage noir (A. R. 36), 1948

Pablo Picasso

Service visage noir (A. R. 36), 1948

Sale Date: February 23, 2021

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Oiseau polychrome (A. R. 33), 1947

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau polychrome (A. R. 33), 1947

Sale Date: February 23, 2021

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Taureau gravé (Alain Ramie 32), 1947

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Taureau gravé (Alain Ramie 32), 1947

Sale Date: February 23, 2021

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AU CABARET, 1934

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AU CABARET, 1934

Sale Date: February 26, 2021

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AU BORD DE LA RIVIERE. LE COUPLE DANS L'HERBE, 1925

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AU BORD DE LA RIVIERE. LE COUPLE DANS L'HERBE, 1925

Sale Date: February 26, 2021

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UNTITLED

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UNTITLED

Sale Date: February 24, 2021

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UNTITLED

Sale Date: February 24, 2021

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Colombe Volant, 1952

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Colombe Volant, 1952

Sale Date: February 13, 2021

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Jacqueline (La Dame aux Dés)

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Jacqueline (La Dame aux Dés)

Sale Date: February 23, 2021

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Royan and Carnet de la Californie (two..., 1948–1959

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Royan and Carnet de la Californie (two..., 1948–1959

Sale Date: February 17, 2021

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Taureau sous l'arbre, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Taureau sous l'arbre, 1952

Sale Date: February 17, 2021

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Picador, 1952

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Picador, 1952

Sale Date: February 17, 2021

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Oiseau à la huppe, 1952

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Oiseau à la huppe, 1952

Sale Date: February 17, 2021

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Oiseau sur la branche, 1952

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Oiseau sur la branche, 1952

Sale Date: February 17, 2021

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Têtes, 1953

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Têtes, 1953

Sale Date: February 11, 2021

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Terre de faïence dish, 1949

Pablo Picasso

Terre de faïence dish, 1949

Sale Date: February 18, 2021

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Sans Titre

Pablo Picasso

Sans Titre

Sale Date: February 22, 2021

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Taureau sous l’arbre, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Taureau sous l’arbre, 1952

Sale Date: January 20, 2021

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Female bust (Nude), 1954

Pablo Picasso

Female bust (Nude), 1954

Sale Date: February 6, 2021

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Characters and rider, 1968, 1968

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Characters and rider, 1968, 1968

Sale Date: February 19, 2021

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Femmes et toréador, 1968, 1968

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Femmes et toréador, 1968, 1968

Sale Date: February 19, 2021

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