Biography

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor. His extensive oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures, ceramics and works in glass, the total number of which is estimated at over 50,000 works.

It is characterized by a great variety of artistic forms of expression and techniques. The works from his Blue and Pink Period and the founding of Cubism together with Georges Braque mark the beginning of his extraordinary artistic career.

One of Picasso’s most famous works is the painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon from 1907, which became a key image of Classic Modernism. With the exception of the monumental painting Guernica from 1937, an artistic transposition of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War with the bombing of the village of Guernica, no other 20th century work of art has challenged research as much as the Demoiselles d’Avignon.

The motif of the dove with the olive branch in its bill on the poster he designed for the Paris World Peace Congress in 1949 became a symbol of peace throughout the world.

Extensive collections of Picasso’s work are on display in museums in Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. He is prominently represented with works in all the world’s major art museums exhibiting the art of the 20th century. The Museu Picasso in Barcelona and theMusée Picasso in Antibes were established during his lifetime.

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Pablo Picasso

ARTWORKS Pablo Picasso

Le Viol II, 1933
drypoint etching on vellum
34 x 44.5 cm
Pablo Picasso
Le Viol II

1933

drypoint etching on vellum

Ed. of 250

34 x 44.5 cm

signed lower right

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Femme nue debout (Portrait of Françoise Gilot), 1946
color pencil on thick paper
50.5 x 33 cm (Paper)
Pablo Picasso
Femme nue debout (Portrait of Françoise Gilot)

1946

color pencil on thick paper

50.5 x 33 cm (Paper)

signed, dated and titled upper right

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Groupe avec femme à l’Agneau, odalisque-écuyère et autoportrait en garagiste, 1968
etching
45.3 x 63.2 cm
Pablo Picasso
Groupe avec femme à l’Agneau, odalisque-écuyère et autoportrait en garagiste

1968

etching

ed. 29/50

45.3 x 63.2 cm

signed and numbered below, dated upper left

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Maja et Célestine, 1968
aquatint etching on Velin from Rives
25.5 x 18 cm (sheet)
Pablo Picasso
Maja et Célestine

1968

aquatint etching on Velin from Rives

trial proof "épreuve avant aciérage"

25.5 x 18 cm (sheet)

signed lower center

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Nu accoudé, 1965
aquatint etching
58.3 x 46.3 cm
Pablo Picasso
Nu accoudé

1965

aquatint etching

ed. 17/50

58.3 x 46.3 cm

signed, dated and numbered below

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Le Chevalier et le Page, 17.02.1951
lithography on vélin from Arches (pen, chalk, brush (with wash), scraper on stone)
52.2 x 38.1 cm
Pablo Picasso
Le Chevalier et le Page

17.02.1951

lithography on vélin from Arches (pen, chalk, brush (with wash), scraper on stone)

copy aside the edition (5 e.a., ed. 50)

52.2 x 38.1 cm

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Femme faisant la sieste, entourée de spectateurs, 10.06.1968
aquatint etching
22.3 x 29.1 cm
Pablo Picasso
Femme faisant la sieste, entourée de spectateurs

10.06.1968

aquatint etching

50 proofs, ed. 30/50

22.3 x 29.1 cm

signed lower right

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Au Théatre: Femme décapitée par un bourreau Kopie, 22.11.1966
Aquatint and etching on wove paper from "Rives"
22 x 32 cm (plate), 29.5 x 42 (sheet)
Pablo Picasso
Au Théatre: Femme décapitée par un bourreau Kopie

22.11.1966

Aquatint and etching on wove paper from "Rives"

Edition 1/3

22 x 32 cm (plate), 29.5 x 42 (sheet)

Stamp signature lower right. Inscribed by another hand lower left: "épreuve avant aciérage"

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Au Théatre: Femme décapitée par un bourreau, 22.11.1966
aquatint and etching on wove paper from "Rives"
22 x 32 cm (plate), 29.5 x 42 (sheet)
Pablo Picasso
Au Théatre: Femme décapitée par un bourreau

22.11.1966

aquatint and etching on wove paper from "Rives"

ed. 1/3

22 x 32 cm (plate), 29.5 x 42 (sheet)

stamp signature lower right. Inscribed by another hand lower left: "épreuve avant aciérage"

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Sous les feux de la rampe: Femme nue entre deux hommes, 1966
Aquatint and etching on wove paper from "Rives"
22 x 32 cm (image), 29.5 x 42 (sheet)
Pablo Picasso
Sous les feux de la rampe: Femme nue entre deux hommes

1966

Aquatint and etching on wove paper from "Rives"

ed. 1/3

22 x 32 cm (image), 29.5 x 42 (sheet)

stamp signature lower right. Inscribed by another hand lower left: "épreuve avant aciérage"

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Visage dans un oval, 1955
ceramic
33 x 40 cm
Pablo Picasso
Visage dans un oval

1955

ceramic

ed. Picasso 12/200

33 x 40 cm

verso mit Stempel

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Pablo Picasso Art
Le petit Dessinateur, 1954
lithography
66 x 50.5
Pablo Picasso
Le petit Dessinateur

1954

lithography

66 x 50.5

dated lower left

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  • trial print of an intermediate state of the print Bloch 768 / Mourlot 263
  • extremely rare sheet

verso

  • the only known proof of the black plate of (Le Départ), brush with wash, pen on transparent lithographic paper over a print of the previous plate
  • intermediate state of Bloch 686

Provenance

  • Galerie Hachmeister, Münster
  • private collection, Switzerland

Literature

  • Münster, Graphik Museum Pablo Picasso, Picasso, lithography, various authors, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Osterfildern-Ruit, 2000, illustration page 219, number 573
  • Bloch 686
  • Bloch 768
  • Mourlot 199
  • Mourlot 263
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Pablo Picasso Art
Jeux de Pages, 1951
lithography and India ink
32.2 x 42.8 cm (sheet 38 x 48.5 cm)
Pablo Picasso
Jeux de Pages

1951

lithography and India ink

32.2 x 42.8 cm (sheet 38 x 48.5 cm)

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  • copy outside the edition of 50 and 5 EA
  • brush traces in the shape of the left page and the right group of figures
  • verso inscribed “Epreuve d’exposition / BONN / pour Castor”
  • very rare

Provenance

  • Galerie Hachmeister, Münster
  • private collection, Switzerland

Literature

  • Münster, Graphik Museum Pablo Picasso, Picasso, lithography, various authors, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Osterfildern-Ruit, 2000, illustration page 217, number 565
  • Bloch 685
  • Mourlot 199
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Pablo Picasso Art
Figure, 1929
lithography on simili Japan paper
23.7 x 13.8 cm (sheet 40.5 x 29 cm)
Pablo Picasso
Figure

1929

lithography on simili Japan paper

23.7 x 13.8 cm (sheet 40.5 x 29 cm)

signed below

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Literature

  • Bloch 96
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Pablo Picasso Art
Bull Fight, 11.06.1959
white and black glazed ceramic
ø 40 cm
Pablo Picasso
Bull Fight

11.06.1959

white and black glazed ceramic

ø 40 cm

verso „Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso“ „Empreinte Originale de Picasso“

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edition 21 of 100

 

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