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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A pair of prints (El Arrastre; Los Cabestros , 1957

Pablo Picasso

A pair of prints (El Arrastre; Los Cabestros , 1957

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Femme assise et dormeuse, 1947

Pablo Picasso

Femme assise et dormeuse, 1947

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Personnages et cavalier (A.R. 540)

Pablo Picasso

Personnages et cavalier (A.R. 540)

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Service visage noir, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Service visage noir, 1948

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Faune souriant, 1948

Pablo Picasso

Faune souriant, 1948

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Visage à la fraise, 1971

Pablo Picasso

Visage à la fraise, 1971

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Buste de Femme avec Fichu, 1939

Pablo Picasso

Buste de Femme avec Fichu, 1939

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Exposition Vallauris 1961, 1961

Pablo Picasso

Exposition Vallauris 1961, 1961

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Exposition Céramique, Vallauris 1959, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Exposition Céramique, Vallauris 1959, 1959

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Petit buste de femme, 1962

Pablo Picasso

Petit buste de femme, 1962

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Dans Van de Jeugd | 青春舞曲, 1960

Pablo Picasso

Dans Van de Jeugd | 青春舞曲, 1960

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Visage No. 0

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Visage No. 0

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Cinesias et Myrrhine, from Lysistrata, 1934

Pablo Picasso

Cinesias et Myrrhine, from Lysistrata, 1934

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Le Festin, from Lysistrata, 1934

Pablo Picasso

Le Festin, from Lysistrata, 1934

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MATERNITÉ (GINESTET/POUILLON 670), 1930

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MATERNITÉ (GINESTET/POUILLON 670), 1930

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"Chouette" Vase tourné, 1969

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"Cruchon Hibou" Pichet tourné, 1955

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"Quatre profils enlacés" Assiette ronde/carrée, 1949

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"Poisson chiné" Grand plat ovale, 1952

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"Corrida fond noir" Plat rectangulaire, 1953

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"Sujet poule" Pièce de forme tournée, 1954

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"Petite chouette" Pichet tourné, 1949

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Originálny Bas reliéf - La VITA (ŽIVOT), 1960–1979

Pablo Picasso

Originálny Bas reliéf - La VITA (ŽIVOT), 1960–1979

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347 Series No.332 | 347シリーズ No.332, 1968

Pablo Picasso

347 Series No.332 | 347シリーズ No.332, 1968

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