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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BLATT 75 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 75 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 74 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 74 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 71 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 71 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Sale Date: December 4, 2020

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BLATT 70 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 70 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 69 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 69 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1971

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BLATT 37 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 37 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

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BLATT 34 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 34 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

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BLATT 8 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

Pablo Picasso

BLATT 8 AUS DER FOLGE 156 GRAVURES, 1970

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L'Entreinte, 1960

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L'Entreinte, 1960

Sale Date: December 5, 2020

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Oiseau au ver, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau au ver, 1952

Sale Date: December 11, 2020

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Têtes, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Têtes, 1956

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Le Peintre et son Modele, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Le Peintre et son Modele, 1963

Sale Date: December 9, 2020

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La Petite Colombe; Fleurs dans une..., 1947–1949

Pablo Picasso

La Petite Colombe; Fleurs dans une..., 1947–1949

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L'écuyère (Bloch 999; Mourlot 333), 1960

Pablo Picasso

L'écuyère (Bloch 999; Mourlot 333), 1960

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La Jeune artiste (Bloch 609; Mourlot 150),..., 1949

Pablo Picasso

La Jeune artiste (Bloch 609; Mourlot 150),..., 1949

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Toros y toreros (Cf. Cramer Books 112), 1961

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Toros y toreros (Cf. Cramer Books 112), 1961

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Ronde de la Jeunesse au Soleil, 1959

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Ronde de la Jeunesse au Soleil, 1959

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Faune et le bouc

Pablo Picasso

Faune et le bouc

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Faune et Marin (Bloch 800), 1956

Pablo Picasso

Faune et Marin (Bloch 800), 1956

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Colombe volant (à l'arc-en-ciel) (Bloch 712), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Colombe volant (à l'arc-en-ciel) (Bloch 712), 1952

Sale Date: December 10, 2020

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Tête en forme d'horloge, 1956

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Tête en forme d'horloge, 1956

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Vallauris, 1956

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Vallauris, 1956

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Visage dans un carré, 1956

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Visage dans un carré, 1956

Sale Date: December 10, 2020

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Tête en forme d'horloge, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Tête en forme d'horloge, 1956

Sale Date: December 10, 2020

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