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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.
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Les Deux Saltimbanques: l'Arlequin et Sa Compagne
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Les Deux Saltimbanques: l’Arlequin et Sa Compagne (The Two Saltimbanques: The Harlequin and His Companion) is an intimate portrayal of traveling entertainers. The woman...
Collotype Print
La Pique I, 1959
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Executed in 1959, Pablo Picasso, La Pique I, belongs to Pablo Picasso’s prolific late period, during which he returned with renewed intensity to themes of mythology, ritual, and the ...
Lithograph
Grande Tête De Femme Au Chapeau Orné (Woman’s Big Head with Decked Hat)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Grande Tête De Femme Au Chapeau Orné (Woman’s Big Head with Decked Hat), 1964 A.R. 518 is a remarkable and beautiful work. It represents Picasso’s most important relati...
Ceramic
Jacqueline Au Chapeau Noir (Jacqueline in Black Hat)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Another example of this work sold at Sotheby's London a on September 6, 2025 for 190,500 GBP, or $254,804 (Lot 19) Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Au Chapeau Noir (Jacqueline in Black Hat)...
Paper, Color, Linocut
La Bouteille de Rhum (Bottle of Rum), c. 1965
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This work is captivating in every sense as it seeks to represent this cylindrical bottle from every angle against a two-dimensional space – as is the goal of most cubist works. It blends into a series of brown, yellow, and black tones that appear to be arranged in a chaotic geometry that continues to make perfect sense to his audience. This is a truly groundbreaking and magnificent still life work of art, whose large scale and grandeur makes this a quintessential Picasso for any art collection. This print was based off of the oil painting of the same name which is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), part of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Picasso painted the original work in the French Pyrenees town of Céret during the summer of 1911, and is a perfect example of his most abstract phase of Cubism, his "high" Analytic Cubism period. Picasso included lettering in this work, one of the first examples of him doing so. The letters "LETR" possibly refer to "Le Torero," a popular bullfighting magazine at the time, of which Picasso was known to be a fan of. They could also refer to the French word for word, "lettre." Created in c. 1965, this original color lithograph is hand signed by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) in pencil in the lower right margin, and H.C. 6/25 in pencil in the lower left margin, aside from the regular edition of 250. Published by Guy Spitzer, Paris after an original oil on canvas of the same title by Picasso created in 1911. Catalogue Raisonné & COA: Pablo Picasso Bottle...
Lithograph, Stencil
Portrait de Mlle D.M. (Dora Maar), c. 1960
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Portrait de Mlle D.M. (Dora Maar), c. 1960; When Dora Maar met Pablo Picasso she was 28 years old, younger than the established painter by over two decades. They met th...
Collotype Print
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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