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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Les Pauvres (Saltimbanques series) , 1905

Pablo Picasso

Les Pauvres (Saltimbanques series) , 1905

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Soleil, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Soleil, 1956

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Bouteille et verre, 1956

Pablo Picasso

Bouteille et verre, 1956

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Soleil, 1953

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Soleil, 1953

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Corrida, 1954

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Corrida, 1954

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Ex-libris for Max Pellequer, 1930

Pablo Picasso

Ex-libris for Max Pellequer, 1930

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Festival Mondial de la Jeunesse, 1965

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Festival Mondial de la Jeunesse, 1965

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Andre Level - Picasso, 1928

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Andre Level - Picasso, 1928

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Ilia Zdanevitch - Afat. Soixante-seize..., 1940

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Ilia Zdanevitch - Afat. Soixante-seize..., 1940

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Jose Delgado - La tauromaquia o arte de torear, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Jose Delgado - La tauromaquia o arte de torear, 1959

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Georges Hugnet - La Chevre-Feuille, 1943

Pablo Picasso

Georges Hugnet - La Chevre-Feuille, 1943

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Sculpteur devant sa sculpture: Plate 1 from..., 1927

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Sculpteur devant sa sculpture: Plate 1 from..., 1927

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L'Etreinte, 1960

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L'Etreinte, 1960

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“Le Vieux Roi”, 1959

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“Le Vieux Roi”, 1959

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La Célestine, 1968

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La Célestine, 1968

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Dans l' Atelier, 1963

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Dans l' Atelier, 1963

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Jeune sculpteur au travail, 1933

Pablo Picasso

Jeune sculpteur au travail, 1933

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Picasso's Sketchbook, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Picasso's Sketchbook, 1960

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Nu de Dos

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Nu de Dos

Sale Date: December 18, 2023

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156 series No.110 | 156シリーズ No.110, 1971

Pablo Picasso

156 series No.110 | 156シリーズ No.110, 1971

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from IMAGINARY PORTRAITS | 「想像の中の肖像」より

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from IMAGINARY PORTRAITS | 「想像の中の肖像」より

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347 series No.180 | 347シリーズ No.180, 1968

Pablo Picasso

347 series No.180 | 347シリーズ No.180, 1968

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from IMAGINARY PORTRAITS | 「想像の中の肖像」より

Pablo Picasso

from IMAGINARY PORTRAITS | 「想像の中の肖像」より

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Le vieux roi, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Le vieux roi, 1959

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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