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 faune, 1949

Pablo Picasso

Tête de faune, 1949

Sale Date: November 30, 2020

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Visage N°0 (A.R. 458), 1963

Pablo Picasso

Visage N°0 (A.R. 458), 1963

Sale Date: November 26, 2020

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Paix Désarmement pour le Succès de la..., 1960

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Paix Désarmement pour le Succès de la..., 1960

Sale Date: November 21, 2020

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Large vase Primavera, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Large vase Primavera, 1960

Sale Date: November 21, 2020

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Bacco from the Fauni series

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Bacco from the Fauni series

Sale Date: November 21, 2020

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Centauro Testa, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Centauro Testa, 1962

Sale Date: November 21, 2020

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Portrait de Jacqueline, 22.1.1956, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Portrait de Jacqueline, 22.1.1956, 1956

Sale Date: November 25, 2020

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Un éventail. Préface de Jaime Sabartes...., 1962

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Un éventail. Préface de Jaime Sabartes...., 1962

Sale Date: November 29, 2020

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Un éventail. Préface de Jaime Sabartes...., 1962

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Un éventail. Préface de Jaime Sabartes...., 1962

Sale Date: November 29, 2020

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Chez la Pythie-Harpye, Homme au Masque de..., 1934

Pablo Picasso

Chez la Pythie-Harpye, Homme au Masque de..., 1934

Sale Date: November 21, 2020

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Pan. 1948, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Pan. 1948, 1948

Sale Date: December 3, 2020

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Heads, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Heads, 1956

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Heads, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Heads, 1956

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Fish subject, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Fish subject, 1952

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Bunch with apple, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Bunch with apple, 1956

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Face with tie, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Face with tie, 1960

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Face with leaves, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Face with leaves, 1956

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Tormented Faun's face, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Tormented Faun's face, 1956

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Small owl jug, 1955

Pablo Picasso

Small owl jug, 1955

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Spanish pitcher, 1954

Pablo Picasso

Spanish pitcher, 1954

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Face no. 0, 1963

Pablo Picasso

Face no. 0, 1963

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Corrida, 1953

Pablo Picasso

Corrida, 1953

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Face in a square, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Face in a square, 1956

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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Cavalier and horse, 1952

Pablo Picasso

Cavalier and horse, 1952

Sale Date: December 2, 2020

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