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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Madame et ses filles au salon devant Degas,..., 1971

Pablo Picasso

Madame et ses filles au salon devant Degas,..., 1971

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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La présentation, 25 mai 1968, 1968

Pablo Picasso

La présentation, 25 mai 1968, 1968

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Citando al toro a banderillas sentado, fin..., 1957

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Citando al toro a banderillas sentado, fin..., 1957

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El Arrastre, fin avril 1957, 1957

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El Arrastre, fin avril 1957, 1957

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A los toros, fin avril 1957, 1957

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A los toros, fin avril 1957, 1957

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Les picadores II, avril 1957, 1957

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Les picadores II, avril 1957, 1957

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Suerte llamada de don Tancredo, fin avril 1957, 1957

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Suerte llamada de don Tancredo, fin avril 1957, 1957

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Visiteurs divins à l’atelier (variation sur..., 1955

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Visiteurs divins à l’atelier (variation sur..., 1955

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La Chèvre, 20 juin 1952, 1952

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La Chèvre, 20 juin 1952, 1952

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Portrait de Françoise au corsage, 1952, 1952

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Portrait de Françoise au corsage, 1952, 1952

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Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard I, Mars 1937, 1937

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Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard I, Mars 1937, 1937

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Faune dévoilant une femme / dormeuse, 1936, 1936

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Faune dévoilant une femme / dormeuse, 1936, 1936

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La fille et le clown, 24 avril 1968, 1968

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La fille et le clown, 24 avril 1968, 1968

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Peintre et modèle au tabouret, 5-6 décembre..., 1963

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Peintre et modèle au tabouret, 5-6 décembre..., 1963

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Vénus et l’Amour (d’après Cranach),..., 1949–1951

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Vénus et l’Amour (d’après Cranach),..., 1949–1951

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Femme qui pleure devant un mur, 22 octobre..., 1937

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Femme qui pleure devant un mur, 22 octobre..., 1937

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette..., 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette..., 1934

Sale Date: December 18, 2020

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Untitled - hand colored drawing on the first...

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Untitled - hand colored drawing on the first...

Sale Date: December 22, 2020

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Postcard and envelope, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Postcard and envelope, 1961

Sale Date: December 22, 2020

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Taureau attaquant (A.R. 94), 1949

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Taureau attaquant (A.R. 94), 1949

Sale Date: December 22, 2020

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Figura di pesce, anni '50, 1950–1959

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Figura di pesce, anni '50, 1950–1959

Sale Date: October 29, 2020

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Tête de chèvre de profil, 1950

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Tête de chèvre de profil, 1950

Sale Date: December 16, 2020

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Oiseau

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Oiseau

Sale Date: December 11, 2020

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Chouette aux plumes, 1951

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Chouette aux plumes, 1951

Sale Date: December 19, 2020

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