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One of the most prolific and revolutionary artists the world has ever seen, Pablo Picasso had a tremendous impact on the development of 20th-century modern art. Although he is best known for his association with the Cubist movement, which he founded with Georges Braque, Picasso’s influence extends to Surrealism, neoclassicism and Expressionism.
“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction,” the Spanish artist proclaimed. In Picasso's Cubist paintings, he emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas, breaking with conventions regarding perspective, foreshortening and proportion. Picasso was inspired by Iberian and African tribal art. One of his most famous pre-Cubist works is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a painting considered immoral and shocking at the time for its depiction of nude women whose faces resemble Iberian tribal masks.
Picasso made many portraits in this style, most often of the women in his life, their expressively colored faces composed of geometric shards of surface planes. In Woman in a Hat (Olga), 1935, he painted his first wife as an assemblage of abstract forms, leaving the viewer to decipher the subject through the contrasting colors and shapes. Picasso was a tireless artist, creating more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculptures. Tracing his life’s work reveals the progression of modern art, on which he had an unparalleled influence.
Browse an expansive collection of Pablo Picasso's art on 1stDibs.
Deux Nus Assis (Two Seated Nudes) - Etching on Paper, Edition 47/100, 1930
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palm Desert, CA
‘Deux Nus Assis’ is an etching on paper by Pablo Picasso. Following his transformative 1917 visit to Italy—where Picasso encountered ancient sculpture, Renaissance masterworks, and P...
Etching
Buste de femme au fichu (Bust of a Woman with a Kerchief) - Dora Maar Etching
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palm Desert, CA
‘Buste de femme au fichu’ is an etching on paper by Pablo Picasso. The work depicts Picasso's mistress and photographer Dora Maar, identifiable by her sharp, angular features and str...
Etching, Aquatint
Tête de femme, face et profil (from Picasso Dessins) - Lithograph on Paper
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This print is dedicated to Marcel Boudin, who was employed as Picasso's driver from 1931 to 1951. Boudin oversaw Picasso's transportation in his newly acquired luxury Hispano Suiza m...
Lithograph, Japan Paper
Femme regardant par la fenetre (Woman Looking out the Window) - signed linocut
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Created in 1959, ‘Femme regardant par la fenêtre’ belongs to Picasso’s celebrated late period of color linocuts, produced primarily in Vallauris during the 1950s. These works repres...
Linocut
Le Repos du Modele (The Model's Rest) - Limited Edition Signed Lithograph
By Henri Matisse
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Henri Matisse's ‘Le Repos du Modèle’ (1922) was published in the album "Les peintres lithographes de Manet à Matisse," with an initial edition of 100 signed impressions (of which 85 ...
Lithograph
Femme nue couronnée de fleurs, aux jambes croisées (from the Vollard Suite)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palm Desert, CA
‘Femme nue couronnée de fleurs, aux jambes croisées’ is an etching from the edition of 260 impressions, from the Vollard Suite, by Pablo Picasso. The artwork is signed in pencil, low...
Etching
Homme Couché et Femme Assise, Lithograph, Modern, 1967, Framed, Excellent
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Homme couché et femme assise Lithograph from 1967. With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of the publisher. Dimensions of work: 42 x 52.5 cm P...
Lithograph
Femme Assise, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Reduced to angular shapes, the female model in this Pablo Picasso print is portrayed in the Cubist style founded and propagated by the artist himself. Relying on invented perspective...
Lithograph
Femme Assise a la Robe Grise, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Femme Assise a la Robe Grise". The original painting was completed in 1943. In the 1970's af...
Lithograph
Femme Assise Pres d'Une Fenetre, Estate Lithograph After Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sitting in an chair with her arm slung over the side, Pablo Picasso's representation of his former muse Marie-Therese Walter is bright and colorful. Relying on round forms and curvin...
Paper, Lithograph
Homme Couché et Femme Assise, Lithograph, Modern, 1967, Framed, Excellent
By Pablo Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Homme couché et femme assise Lithograph from 1967. With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of the publisher. Dimensions of work: 42 x 52.5 cm P...
Lithograph
Femme Dans L’Atelier, Lithograph after Pablo Picasso, Framed
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
Paper, Lithograph
From 1901 to 1904, Picasso limited his palette to bluish hues in producing some of his most famous early works. A new show looks at the recycled materials, hidden underpaintings, surprising influences and bohemian lifestyle that led to their creation.
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