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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La Famille du Saltimbanque, 1954

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La Famille du Saltimbanque, 1954

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Hibou, Verre et Fleur, 1956

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Hibou, Verre et Fleur, 1956

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La Répétition, 1954

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La Répétition, 1954

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Femme de Face: Jours de Gloire, 1945

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Femme de Face: Jours de Gloire, 1945

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Pigeon au Fond Gris, 1947

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Pigeon au Fond Gris, 1947

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Faune Dévoilant une Dormeuse, from La Suite..., 1936

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Faune Dévoilant une Dormeuse, from La Suite..., 1936

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Portrait de Dora Maar au Chignon I, 1936

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Portrait de Dora Maar au Chignon I, 1936

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Femme Torero, V, 1934

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Femme Torero, V, 1934

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Taureau et Cheval, from Le Chef d'Oeuvre..., 1931

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Taureau et Cheval, from Le Chef d'Oeuvre..., 1931

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L'Atelier, 1927

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L'Atelier, 1927

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Buste d'Homme, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

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Buste d'Homme, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

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“Peintre devant une des trois grâces de...

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“Peintre devant une des trois grâces de...

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"Scéne antique"

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“El nacimiento del centauro”, 1947

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“El nacimiento del centauro”, 1947

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Sculpteur et deux têtes sculptées from the...

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Sculpteur et deux têtes sculptées from the...

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Modèle accoudé sur un tableau from the Vollard...

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Modèle accoudé sur un tableau from the Vollard...

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une petite Fille , 1934

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Minotaure aveugle guidé par une petite Fille , 1934

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Sueño y Mentira de Franco, 1937

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Sueño y Mentira de Franco, 1937

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Trois Femmes nues près d'une Fenêtre, from..., 1933

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Trois Femmes nues près d'une Fenêtre, from..., 1933

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Grand profil, 1947

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Grand profil, 1947

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Femme au fauteuil No. 1 (Le Manteau Polonais), 1949

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Femme au fauteuil No. 1 (Le Manteau Polonais), 1949

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Picador et torero, 1959

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Picador et torero, 1959

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Portrait de Jacqueline à la fraise, 1962

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Portrait de Jacqueline à la fraise, 1962

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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, d'après Manet, 1962

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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, d'après Manet, 1962

Sale Date: March 20, 2024

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