Pablo Picasso

Selected Works

Pablo Picasso
Mujer de nariz grande, en escorzo, en una cama, 1971
Etching, drypoint on rives paper
36,8 x 49,6 cm
Signed, dated and numbered from an edition of 15 copies

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Pablo Picasso
Tête de femme, 1953
Huile sur toile
65,4 x 54 cm
Signée en haut à gauche et datée au dos

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Pablo Picasso
Mujer con tres perfiles, con camisa y botines, y mujer desnuda..., 1971
Eau-forte, pointe sèche sur papier Rives
36,6 x 49,3 cm
Signé et numéroté

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Biography

The artist never stopped alternating periods of radical innovation and a return to classical forms, seeking to inscribe his work in a relationship that was both modernist and monumental.

Picasso (1881-1973), a Spanish artist, revealed an exceptional talent for drawing from his childhood. Encouraged by his father, he painted his first canvas at the age of eight. At fifteen, he entered the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, where he led a bohemian life. In 1901, he moved to the French capital, where he would live until the end of his life, although he always retained his Spanish nationality.
Picasso's work is divided into several significant periods: the blue period, marked by a deep melancholy, the pink period, cubism, the classical and Ingresque period, then the surrealist period, among others. The artist never stopped alternating periods of radical innovation and a return to classical forms, seeking to inscribe his work in a relationship that was both modernist and monumental.
His name is inseparable from the history of Cubism, which he developed with Georges Braque between 1906 and 1908, after discovering African art. This movement, influenced by Cézanne, proposes a representation of reality based on deconstruction and the multiplication of points of view.

In 1907, Picasso created Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, a flagship work of Cubism. He was also close to Apollinaire, a great defender of African art. In the 1930s, Picasso revisited the genre of history painting with Guernica, a monumental work denouncing the massacre of the Basque city by Franco’s troops in 1936. He chose not to go into exile in the United States and remained in France, where he was deeply affected by the events of the Second World War. Politically engaged, he joined the French Communist Party, which embodied the Resistance, and became a fervent defender of pacifism. The last two decades of his life, spent in the south of France, were largely devoted to ceramics.