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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Peintre à son chevalet, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Peintre à son chevalet, 1965

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Modèle et peintre chauve, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Modèle et peintre chauve, 1966

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Deux femmes IV, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Deux femmes IV, 1965

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Deux femmes en chaussettes, 1971

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Deux femmes en chaussettes, 1971

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Charrette foraine conduite par un petit animal, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Charrette foraine conduite par un petit animal, 1966

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Au Trois acteurs, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Trois acteurs, 1933

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Au Homme dévoilant une femme, 1931

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Au Homme dévoilant une femme, 1931

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Au Flûtiste et trois femmes nues, 1933

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Au Flûtiste et trois femmes nues, 1933

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Au bord de la rivière : le couple dans l’herbe, 1925

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Au bord de la rivière : le couple dans l’herbe, 1925

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Sculpteur travaillant à un buste de femme II, 1965

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Sculpteur travaillant à un buste de femme II, 1965

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Peintre travaillant à une grande toile..., 1964

Pablo Picasso

Peintre travaillant à une grande toile..., 1964

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Peintre et modèle au bandeau, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Peintre et modèle au bandeau, 1966

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Modèle au repos, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Modèle au repos, 1965

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Homme frisé se balançant, 1968

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Homme frisé se balançant, 1968

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Femme nue au fauteuil, 1966

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Femme nue au fauteuil, 1966

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Deux femmes assises au miroir, 1965

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Deux femmes assises au miroir, 1965

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Conversation muette, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Conversation muette, 1968

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« Pisseuse » surprise par deux vieillards, 1966

Pablo Picasso

« Pisseuse » surprise par deux vieillards, 1966

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Peintre devant une des « Trois, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Peintre devant une des « Trois, 1968

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Vieux peintre avec modèle barbu et une..., 1963

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Vieux peintre avec modèle barbu et une..., 1963

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Vieux beau saluant très bas une, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Vieux beau saluant très bas une, 1968

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Souvenirs d’enfance : fête de rue, 1968

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Souvenirs d’enfance : fête de rue, 1968

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Gentilhomme en visite chez la Célestine, 1968

Pablo Picasso

Gentilhomme en visite chez la Célestine, 1968

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Au Sculpteurs, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Au Sculpteurs, 1933

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