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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Femme se coiffant, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Femme se coiffant, 1968

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Deux femmes, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Deux femmes, 1968

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Clin d’œil au « Bain turc » : femmes, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Clin d’œil au « Bain turc » : femmes, 1968

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Clin d’œil au « Bain turc » : femmes, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Clin d’œil au « Bain turc » : femmes, 1968

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Buveur et prostituée blonde, 1971

Pablo Picasso

Buveur et prostituée blonde, 1971

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Au Vieux sculpteur au travail, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Vieux sculpteur au travail, 1933

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Au Sculpteur avec coupe, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Sculpteur avec coupe, 1933

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Au Sculpteur à mi-corps au travail, 1933

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Au Sculpteur à mi-corps au travail, 1933

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Au Sculpteur, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Sculpteur, 1933

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Au Modèle contemplant un groupe sculpté, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Modèle contemplant un groupe sculpté, 1933

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Au Modèle accoudé sur un tableau, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Modèle accoudé sur un tableau, 1933

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Au Minotaure aveugle guidé par une, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Minotaure aveugle guidé par une, 1933

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Au Minotaure, 1933

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Au Minotaure, 1933

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Au Les Baigneuses surprises, 1933

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Au Les Baigneuses surprises, 1933

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Au Le Repos du sculpteur et le modèle, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Le Repos du sculpteur et le modèle, 1933

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Au Le Repos du sculpteur devant le, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Le Repos du sculpteur devant le, 1933

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Au Le Repos du sculpteur, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Le Repos du sculpteur, 1933

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Au Le Repos du sculpteur, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Le Repos du sculpteur, 1933

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Au Femme nue assise devant un rideau, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Au Femme nue assise devant un rideau, 1931

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Au Femme assise et femme de dos, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Femme assise et femme de dos, 1933

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Au Deux modèles vêtus, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Deux modèles vêtus, 1933

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Au cirque : haltérophile, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Au cirque : haltérophile, 1968

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Au bain, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Au bain, 1931

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Pour Hélène et Iliazd, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Pour Hélène et Iliazd, 1968

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