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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Pablo Picasso

"Picador" plate

Sale Date: April 24, 2024

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PICADOR, 1952

Pablo Picasso

PICADOR, 1952

Sale Date: April 18, 2024

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Le Gout de Bonheur' und 'Suite érotique

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Le Gout de Bonheur' und 'Suite érotique

Sale Date: April 19, 2024

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Homme barbu couronné de feuillage, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Homme barbu couronné de feuillage, 1962

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flûtiste, 1953

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Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flûtiste, 1953

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Homme et Femme, 1927

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Homme et Femme, 1927

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Sueño y mentira de Franco (the pair, with..., 1937

Pablo Picasso

Sueño y mentira de Franco (the pair, with..., 1937

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Faune dévoilant une femme (from La Suite Vollard)

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Faune dévoilant une femme (from La Suite Vollard)

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une petite fille , 1939

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une petite fille , 1939

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Le Viol, VII (from La Suite Vollard), 1939

Pablo Picasso

Le Viol, VII (from La Suite Vollard), 1939

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Peintre et femme cueillant des fleurs (plate , 1970

Pablo Picasso

Peintre et femme cueillant des fleurs (plate , 1970

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Dans l'atelier: modèle et deux amateurs, 1966

Pablo Picasso

Dans l'atelier: modèle et deux amateurs, 1966

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2 plates from Les Métamorphoses

Pablo Picasso

2 plates from Les Métamorphoses

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Homme et Femme, 1965

Pablo Picasso

Homme et Femme, 1965

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Le vieux bouffon, 1963

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Le vieux bouffon, 1963

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Petit buste de femme, 1962

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Petit buste de femme, 1962

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Visage aux cheveux bouclés (A. R. 573), 1968–1969

Pablo Picasso

Visage aux cheveux bouclés (A. R. 573), 1968–1969

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Têtes (A.R. 368), 1956

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Têtes (A.R. 368), 1956

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Visage (A.R. 448), 1960

Pablo Picasso

Visage (A.R. 448), 1960

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Têtes (A.R. 367), 1956

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Têtes (A.R. 367), 1956

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Oiseau au soleil (A.R. 174), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Oiseau au soleil (A.R. 174), 1952

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Pichet tête carrée (A.R. 223), 1953

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Pichet tête carrée (A.R. 223), 1953

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Vase au décor pastel (A.R. 190), 1953

Pablo Picasso

Vase au décor pastel (A.R. 190), 1953

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Picador (A.R. 160), 1952

Pablo Picasso

Picador (A.R. 160), 1952

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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