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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Tête de femme No. 5 (Head of a Woman..., 1939–1942

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme No. 5 (Head of a Woman..., 1939–1942

Sale Date: January 21, 2021

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Couple, 1947

Pablo Picasso

Couple, 1947

Sale Date: January 10, 2021

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Tete de Homme au Bouc

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Tete de Homme au Bouc" 1970, 1970

Sale Date: January 10, 2021

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TOROS, 1952

Pablo Picasso

TOROS, 1952

Sale Date: January 10, 2021

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Le repas frugal, 1955, 1955

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Le repas frugal, 1955, 1955

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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La Colombe, 9 janvier 1949, 1949

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La Colombe, 9 janvier 1949, 1949

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Sculpteur et modèle agenouillé, 8 avril 1933, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Sculpteur et modèle agenouillé, 8 avril 1933, 1933

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Peintre travaillant observé par un modèle..., 1927

Pablo Picasso

Peintre travaillant observé par un modèle..., 1927

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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La fille, l’enfant et le gentilhomme, 21..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

La fille, l’enfant et le gentilhomme, 21..., 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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La Célestine, fille et mousquetaire, 26 mai..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

La Célestine, fille et mousquetaire, 26 mai..., 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Mousquetaire et fille, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Mousquetaire et fille, 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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La fille et le gentilhomme, 24 mars 1968, 1968

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La fille et le gentilhomme, 24 mars 1968, 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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La Célestine présente une fille à deux..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

La Célestine présente une fille à deux..., 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard II, 4 mars 1937, 1937

Pablo Picasso

Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard II, 4 mars 1937, 1937

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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L’étreinte (ou le viol V), 23 avril 1933, 1933

Pablo Picasso

L’étreinte (ou le viol V), 23 avril 1933, 1933

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Degas au salon de la maison Tellier, 14-16..., 1971

Pablo Picasso

Degas au salon de la maison Tellier, 14-16..., 1971

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Femme couchée et deux visages, 20 janvier 1970, 1970

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Femme couchée et deux visages, 20 janvier 1970, 1970

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Le gentilhomme, la fille et le dogue, 23..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

Le gentilhomme, la fille et le dogue, 23..., 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Dame de qualité, 5 aout 1968, 1968

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Dame de qualité, 5 aout 1968, 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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La Célestine, la fille au bouquet et le..., 1968

Pablo Picasso

La Célestine, la fille au bouquet et le..., 1968

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Dans l’atelier : peintre, modèle et..., 1963

Pablo Picasso

Dans l’atelier : peintre, modèle et..., 1963

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard III, Mars 1937, 1937

Pablo Picasso

Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard III, Mars 1937, 1937

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Les trois amies, 1927, 1927

Pablo Picasso

Les trois amies, 1927, 1927

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Trois nus. Esquisses de têtes, 1927, 1927

Pablo Picasso

Trois nus. Esquisses de têtes, 1927, 1927

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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