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Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Nationality: Spanish
Movement: Cubism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain and moved to Paris in 1900 where he lived for a long time. He was the founder of the abstract movement in 20th-century art. When he arrived in Paris he first fell into an artistic atmosphere of poetic melancholy. In his so-called Blue Period (1902-1904) he created sad images of beggars and derelicts, the tonalities of the paintings were blues, dull whites and grays - -The Old Guitarist - (1903). In 1906 Picasso and George Braques (1886-1963) developed the early stages of Cubism. Picasso's - The Demoiselles d'Avignon - (1906-7) is an early Cubist painting where the figures and their setting are broken up into angular shapes. Both their paintings are characterized by sharp edges and angles approaching prisms with restrained colors. By 1910 Cubism was well established, and by the outbreak of World War II Picasso had become the most famous living painter. Picasso resumed contact with the classical tradition and synthesized the 2 styles into his distinct style best represented by his mural - Guernica - (1937). Guernica was inspired by the bombing of the Guernica, the ancient capital of the Basques in northern Spain. It does not represent the event itself but rather evokes the agony of total war through a symbolic representation of the scene. He is the most influential painter of the 20th-century masters as the aesthetic of Cubism has in some way influenced almost every major artist and movement since 1907. Spanish born Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso, moved to Paris at the age of 19, after studying art in Barcelona. His Blue Period lasted from 1901 to 1904 during which he focused his work on people on the fringe of society such as circus performers and the homeless. Picasso’s Rose Period(1904-1906) depicted similar subjects in more hopeful colors. This period is thought to be one of the few times in Picasso’s life when he was content. The highlight of his career came with the completion of Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, which marked the beginning of Cubism and dubbed Picasso as the most influential artist of the 20th century. Another important juncture in Picasso’s work was Guernica, a political piece inspired by the deteriorating social conditions brought about by the Spanish Civil War. Disheartened by the situation in his native country, Picasso spent the remainder of his life in France.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Man Ray - Pablo Picasso 1932 silver gelatin devel National Gallery of Art American
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Juan Gris - Portrait of Pablo Picasso 1912 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Woman by the Sea Date: 1922 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
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Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette, III Date: 1934 Medium: etching,
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, No. 11 Date: 1937 Medium: aquatint Dimensions:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Pablo Picasso and Martin Fabiani Title: Eaux-Fortes Originales pour des textes de BUFFON Date:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: David Seymour Title: Pablo Picasso and detail of "Guernica", France Date: 1937 Medium: gelatin
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Le Repas Frugal, 1904 Made by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)SpanishEtching; Plate: 18-3/16 x 14-13/16 in.
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Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Faun Uncovering a Woman Date: 1936 Medium: aquatine, etching, sugarlift Dimensions:
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s Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Woman in an Armchair (Femme dans un fauteuil) Date: 1927
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Juan Gris Homage to Pablo Picasso after Juan Gris in the book Du cubisme (Paris: Compagnie FranÁaise des Arts Graphiques, 31 July 1947). Drypoint on Lana "pur fil" paper 1947
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Girl Reading at a Table, 1934 Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)Oil and enamel on canvas; H.
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Pablo Picasso - The Tragedy 1903 oil on wood National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Man with a Pipe 1911 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Two Youths 1905 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Le Gourmet 1901 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Three Musicians 1921 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Lady with a Fan 1905 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Studio 1927-28 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - She-Goat 1950 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Life 1903 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Self-Portrait 1906 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Three Musicians 1921 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Harlequin 1915 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Glass 12/01/1911 oil on canvas and ta The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Four Figures 1926 ink on paper The Hyde Collection Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Two Nudes 1906 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Repose 1908 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Landscape 1908 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Harem 1906 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Red Armchair 1931 oil and enamel on pa The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - La Sieste 1919 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Still Life 1933 aquatint Arkansas Arts Center Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Old Guitarist 1903-1904 oil on panel The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Ma Jolie 1911-1912 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman by the Sea 1922 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Rape 1920 tempera on wood The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Guitar 1912-1913 sheet metal and wire The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Flowers 1904 gouache, watercolor Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Spanish
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Pablo Picasso
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Rupert Garcia Pablo Picasso color screenprint 1973
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Pablo Picasso - Jester on Horseback 1905 oil on composition b Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Vollard I 1937 aquatint on Montval Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman with Kerchief 1906 gouache on paper Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman with a Guitar 1914 oil, sand, and charc The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Card Player 1913-1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Glass of Absinthe 1914 painted bronze with The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Architect's Table 1912 oil on canvas mounte The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Boy Leading a Horse 1905-1906 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Guitar on a Table 1912 oil, sand, and charc Hood Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Baboon and Young 1951 bronze Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Pregnant Woman 1950 plaster with metal a The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman in an Armchair 1927 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Fruit Dish 1908-1909 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman with Tambourine 1938 etching and lithogra New Orleans Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Nude Woman 1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Pedro Manach 1901 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Family of Saltimbanques 1905 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Painter and Model 1928 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Mother and Child 1921 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Three Women at the Spring 1921 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Violin and Grapes 1912 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Nude with a Pitcher 1906 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Harlequin Family 1905 ink and gouache on c Portland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman in an Armchair 1960 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Glass and Pipe 1919 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Seated Bather 1930 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Girl before a Mirror 1932 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Green Still Life 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman with a Cape 1901 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Fan, Salt Box, Melon 1909 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Biscuits 1924 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Harlequin with Violin 1918 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Cock of the Liberation 1944 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Baboon and Young 1951 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman by a Windo 1956 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Charnel House 1944-45 oil and charcoal on The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Gertrude Stein, 1906 Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)Oil on canvas; H. 39-3/8, W. 32 in. (100
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Pablo Picasso - Glass and Bottle of Suze 1912 paster paper with go Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Crazy woman with Cats 1901 oil on pulp board The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Bottle, Glass, and Fork 1911-1912 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Guitar and Wine Glass 1912 collage and charcoal The McNay Art Museum Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Red Bull's Head 1938 Oil on Canvas Arkansas Arts Center Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Compote and Glass 1914-1915 oil on canvas Columbus Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - The Artist's Sister Lola c. 1899-1900 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Glass, Guitar, and Bottle 1913 oil, pasted paper, g The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Head of a Woman (Fernande) 1909-1932 bronze National Gallery of Art Spanish
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David Seymour (Chim) Pablo Picasso gelatin silver print (printed later) 1937
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Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Liquer Bottle 1909 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Pablo Picasso - Nude Under a Pine Tree 1959 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Boy Holding a Blue Vase 1905 oil on canvas The Hyde Collection Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Nude Combing Her Hair 1906 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Bottle of Port and Glass 1919 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Head of a Woman (Fernande) 1909 bronze Norton Museum of Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Studio with Plaster Head 1925 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler 1910 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Night Fishing at Antibes 1939 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Head of a Woman (Fernande) 1909 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Pablo Picasso - Woman's Head (Fernande) 1909 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Spanish

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Picasso People: Did you know that the year 2001 is Picasso's 120th Birthday
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Everson Musuem of Art: Picasso Ceramics: Selections from the Bercuson Collection at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
Over 50 ceramic objects in the exhibit—including pitchers, platters, plaques, and vases—demonstrate Picasso’s use of designs and themes from other cultures such as p...

Cleveland Museum of Art: Picasso: the Artist's Studio - Opened Yesterday in Cleveland
Only visitors to the Cleveland showing of Picasso: The Artists Studio will have the opportunity to experience a gallery exploring how Picassos working methods are revealed through x-radiography, infrared reflectography, and other forms of scientif...

Fundacao Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva: Picasso: Homage to the bullfighter
Picasso sought the explanation of life and death in Dominguin’s art of bullfighting. A huge number of projects emerged from the friendship between the painter and the bullfighter, among them were projects for bull rings, books and many ideas on bu...

Baltimore Museum of Art: Picasso: Cubism to Classicism
Picasso became interested in monumental classical figures after a trip to Italy in 1917. One of his major themes from this period is the artist in his studio—a sculptor or painter inspired by the nude female model. Characters from classical mythol...

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Picasso Ceramic Editions: From the Edward Weston Collection
In the nineteenth century, Vallauris had been a center of ceramics production, however it had been in decline since World War I. Picassos interest led to its revitalization and he produced over 600 editions in Vallauris until 1971. Sixty cer...

Irish Museum of Modern Art: Picasso - Working on Paper
The artist regularly returned to this process and the exhibition covers the period 1878-1963, essentially Picasso's working life as an artist. This work has not been seen in Ireland before, an...

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Picasso: The Artists Studio
Unlike many modern artists who treated their studios as inviolable sanctuaries, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) used his studio not only as a place of work, but as a social and intellectual ...

Museum of Modern Art: Matisse Picasso
Years in the making, this exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Musée Picasso and Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. It brings together masterpieces ...

Tate Modern: MatissePicasso
Through a series of over thirty groupings of paintings and sculpture, this major exhibition gives you the opportunity to compare and contrast Matisse's expressive use of colour and line alongside Picasso's stylistic virtuos...

Baltimore Museum of Art: Picasso: Portrait and Figure
Picassos knowledge of the classical figure is evident in a number of finely rendered pen drawings from 1904-1905, drawn in contour without modeling. Gradually, through his study of Iberian sculpture and the influence of Cezanne, Picasso began ...

Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Fenosa and His Friend Picasso
Given the close friendship between these three artists, the Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva Foundation decided to, and for the first time, bring the work of Apel.les Fenosa to Portugal. The ties between Vieira, Arpad and Apel.les Fenosa were extr...

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Picasso - For All Times
PICASSO – FOR ALL TIMES is the first exhibition in Denmark in 20 years to embrace a full range of the artist’s work. Counting loans from other collections, 101 works illustrate the scope of his achievement. The show follows Picasso year by year—start...

Art Gallery of New South Wales: Picasso: The Last Decade
"Picasso was the towering, relentless, rapacious and protean genius of the twentieth century. He remained at the very epicentre of artistic pace throughout the century and even the anxieties of encroaching old age failed to dim his assertive crea...

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: From Picasso to Tàpies: Spanish 20th Century Art from the Reina Sofia
Spanish artists working in the period before 1945 exercised a major influence on artistic developments in the twentieth century. They were in the vanguard of the changes taking place in the art world, in style, in professional attitudes and in the...

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: Picasso: Las grandes series
The exhibtion has been generously sponsored by the Fundación BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and Argentaria). Curator: Paloma Esteban
Coordinator: Mercedes Marfagón
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Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Picasso Erotica
But, of all of Picasso’s multitudinous erotic adventures in various media, the etchings are by far his most important body of work. They are not merely numerous, but rather each is highly charged with the unbridled life force that infused all of h...

Musée Picasso: Brassaï/Picasso: Conversations with Light
Brassaï and Picasso met in 1932 through Tériade, who had commissioned a series of photos of the rue La Boétie studio and of recent plaster sculptures done by Picasso at Boisgeloup, for the first issue of the review Minotaure. Later ...

Art Gallery of Ontario: From Michelangelo to Picasso: Great Master Drawings from the Collection of the Albertina, Vienna
The selection of drawings in this exhibition demonstrates the breadth and strength of the Albertina’s holdings. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive ove...

National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...

Judy A Saslow Gallery: The Paintings of Matt Lamb
Visually, Lamb’s art is a spectacular play of bold color and unusual texture. Lamb invented the painting technique he uses, which he calls "generational", (multiple paintings layered onto the same canvas). The resulting surfaces are often descri...

National Museum of Fine Arts: From Picasso to Keith Haring
The artworks, mostly donated by collectors and artists before and after the Revolution, includes a room dedicated to the US art from the Reagan era, which were donated in 1984 by 50 american artists. It contains among others, an outstanding piece ...

Art Institute of Chicago: On or Off the Wall: An International Selection of Tapestries and Carpets, 1920s-1970s
On or Off the Wall: An International Selection of Tapestries and Carpets, 1920s- 1970s is organized by the Department of Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago. Curator: Christa C. Thurman, The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textile...

National Galleries of Scotland, Dean Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art: THE SURREALIST AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER: ROLAND PENROSE AND LEE MILLER
Already a Surrealist artist of considerable talent, Penrose became a tireless champion of modern art through his activities as a collector, writer and exhibition organiser. A former Vogue model, Lee Miller was a remarkable photographer who later ...

Museo del Prado: The Spanish Portrait from El Greco to Picasso
Over the course of three and a half months and through a selection of 84 works, the exhibition devoted to the Spanish portrait will present a survey of the development of this genre in Spanish art from the late fifteenth century to the ea...

Sprengel Museum: Cubisme - Cubism: An Artistic Watershed in Europe 1906-1926
Around then, the Moscow collector Ivan Morossov also bought Picassos. Villa Schschukin in the grand Snamenski Lane was open to the public from 1909, providing many Moscow artists, such as M. Larionov and N. Gont-scharova, David Buliyuk, Kasimir Ma...

Thomas Dane: Translations - Creative Copying and Originality
The idea that artists create autonomously is a great myth. The exhibition shows how artists have always been attracted by the works of their predecessors and contemporaries and how they have explored the creative potential of copying for their own...

Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Among the highlights of the exhibition are 16 turn-of-the-century paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and 14 by Renoirs dear friend Paul Cézanne. The three most important painters to emerge in France in the first decade of the 20th century are r...

Royal Academy of Arts: Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting
Opening with work by Ingres and Delacroix and closing with the paintings of Picasso and Matisse, the exhibition will provide a broad overview of French painting from the early nineteenth-century to the 1930s. Ingres to Matisse ...

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