Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
Author of Je Suis Le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso
About the Author
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish painter, graphic artist, and sculptor, is generally considered the most revolutionary, influential, and versatile artist of the twentieth century. He was born in Malaga, son of a painter, and studied in Barcelona. His extraordinary talent showed at an early age. Before show more he was 14, he had already produced a masterwork in the classic tradition. His early paintings (1901-04) of the so-called Blue Period (in which blues dominate the color scheme) deal with outcasts, beggars, sick children, and circus people. The Old Guitarist is the most famous of his Blue Period paintings. In Paris, Picasso developed a lighter palette, the so-called Rose Period, which is exemplified in The Boy with Horse. In his so-called Negro Period (1907-09), he concerned himself with basic forms, revealing the influence of African art. During those same years, he turned to the incipient cubist movement. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, in its semiabstract geometric forms, was a revolutionary step toward twentieth-century modernism, which he, together with Braque and Matisse, really set in motion. Picasso went through the entire vocabulary of cubism, its analytical as well as its synthetic phase. After 1918 he was also hailed as an initiator of surrealism. The horrors of the Spanish civil war affected Picasso deeply. With almost mythological power, his major work Guernica was inspired by the terror-bombing of the ancient capital of the Basques in northern Spain. Although the painting does not represent the event itself, it does evoke the agony and terror of war in general. The saturation bombing depicted in Guernica was the first demonstration of a technique later employed during World War II. Night Fishing at Antibes is another masterwork of that period. In his later years, Picasso experimented with ceramics and did highly original sculptures---including the famous Goat, as well as collages. He also produced a flood of drawings, lithographs, engravings, and stage designs. He remained creative to the last day of his life. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Pablo Picasso
Picasso {wrongly combined works} 43 copies
Picasso - National Gallery of Victoria 28.7.84 - 23.9.84. Art Gallery of New South Wales 10.10.84 - 2.12.84 (1984) 40 copies
The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods (Penguin Classics of World Art) (1968) 39 copies
Picasso from the Musee Picasso, Paris: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 10 February through 30 March 1980 (1980) 34 copies
Birds & Other Animals: with Pablo Picasso (First Concepts with Fine Artists series) (2017) 30 copies, 1 review
The Great Artists : A library of their lives, times and paintings : Book 06 : Picasso (1978) 24 copies, 1 review
Hommage à Pablo Picasso [cat. exp., Paris, Grand Palais, novembre 1966 - février 1967] (1966) 21 copies
Picasso: oeuvres recues en paiement des droits de succession, Grand Palais 11 octobre 1979-7 janvier 1980 (French Edition) (1979) 17 copies
Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973: Works on paper : a homage on the twentieth anniversary of the death of the artist (1994) 11 copies
Picasso: Sculpture, ceramics, graphic work : at the Tate Gallery, 9 June-13 August 1967 (1967) 11 copies
Picasso: Vollard Suite the Instituto De Credito Oficial Collection (Coleccion Instituto De Credito Oficial.) (1991) 11 copies
Picasso, Braque and early film in Cubism : April 20-June 23, 2007, PaceWildenstein : [Exhibition catalogue (2007) 10 copies
Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972 (Art & Design) (2000) 10 copies
Picasso's private drawings; the artist's personal collection of his finest drawings, including 117 reproductions (1969) 10 copies
Picasso: Oeuvres des Musées de Leningrad et de Moscou, et de Quelques Collections Parisiennes. (1955) — Artist — 7 copies
L'oeuvre gravé de Picasso 1955-1966 6 copies
Picasso: variations on Velazquez' painting "The maids of honor" and other recent works (1959) 6 copies
Picasso: 1915-1973 6 copies
Picasso : a loan exhibition for the benefit of Cancer Care, inc., the National Cancer Foundation, April 15-May 17 (1975) 5 copies
De Matisse à Picasso : collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman : exposition organisée avec The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1994) — Artist — 5 copies
Drawings 5 copies
Museo Picasso : catálogo. 1 4 copies
Picasso : peintre-graveur Tome II ; catalogue illustré de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié 1932 - 1934 (1992) 4 copies
Picasso : las grandes series : [exposición], Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, del 28 de marzo al 18 de junio (2001) 4 copies
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: Painting for themselves : late works (German Edition) (1996) 4 copies
Picasso - Badende : [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Picasso - Badende", Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 18. Juni bis 16. Oktober 2005] (2005) 4 copies
Picasso : die Sammlung Ludwig ; Zeichnungen, Gemälde, plastische Werke ; [... anlä lich der Ausstellung "Picasso - Die (1992) 3 copies
Picasso Erotique (English Edition): Connaissance des Arts special issue. From 01/01/2002 (Connaissance des Arts, 60) (2001) 3 copies
Picasso Sculptures 3 copies
Picasso's Marie-Therese 3 copies
Picasso y Barcelona: 1881-1981 : Salon del Tinell, octubre 1981-enero 1982, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, febrero-marzo 1982 (Spanish Edition) (1981) 3 copies, 1 review
Paintings and drawings of Picasso 3 copies
Picasso e il teatro 3 copies
Picasso and the Vollard Suite 2 copies
Picasso, 1953-1973: exposition du 14 février au 17 mai 1981, Septentrion, Fondation Anne et Albert Proubost, Marcq-en-Barœul (1981) 2 copies
Picasso Before 1907 2 copies
Picasso: [exposicion], septiembre-noviembre, 1977, Fundacion Juan March (Catalogo de exposiciones de la Fundacion Juan March) (1977) 2 copies
Dibujos, 1899-1917 IVAM Centre Julio González, del 18 de febrero al 30 de abril de 1989 (1989) 2 copies
Picasso: Der blinde Minotaurus : die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle (German Edition) (1997) 2 copies
Picasso, la Provence & Jacqueline: Arles, Espace Van Gogh, 8 février-12 mai 1991 (French Edition) (1991) 2 copies
Les Mains. Egypte et Mésopotamie 2 copies
Pablo Picasso : col·lecció Ludwig : pintura, dibuix, escultura, ceràmica i obra gràfica (1992) 2 copies
The Great Artists : Their lives, works and inspiration : 71 : Picasso — Illustrator — 2 copies
Picasso : oeuvres 1920-1926 2 copies
Scritti di Picasso 2 copies
Picasso: Guernica 2 copies
Picasso: disegni 27.3.66-15.3.68 2 copies
Picasso : exclusiv aus Privatsammlungen : Augsburger Glaspalast, 16. Februar bis 16. Mai 2005 (2005) 2 copies
Picasso azul y rosa. 2 copies
El tema del amor 2 copies
Graphik von Pablo Picasso 2 copies
Pablo Picasso : Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins Ausstellung 25. Oktober-22. Dezember 1982, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern (1982) 2 copies
Seize peintures : 1939 - 1946 2 copies
Die Frauen von Mougins 2 copies
The Luminous Life of 2 copies
Picassos Surrealismus : Werke 1925-1937 ; [Ausstellung Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Richard Koselowsky-Haus), 15. September bis (1991) 2 copies
Le miroir noir : Picasso, sources photographiques, 1900-1928 : Paris, musée Picasso, 12 mars-9 juin 1997 (1997) 2 copies
Picasso : das graphische Werk 2 copies
Picasso : letzte graphische Blätter 1970-1972 ; Picasso-Graphik aus der Sammlung Ludwig Aachen 2 copies
Picasso : épocas azul y rosa 2 copies
Picaso. Dibujos-Gouaches-Acuarelas 2 copies
Picasso, les poetes et la reliure : [exposition] Paris, 10 septembre-4 octobre 1991, Maison de la poésie (1991) 2 copies
Museo Picasso de Barcelona. 2 copies
Picasso og Middelhavet : [utställning på Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebæck, 20 september, 1996-19 januar, 1997] (1996) 2 copies
Picasso malt Frauen 2 copies
Picasso : dessins 2 copies
Graphic works 2 copies
Picasso : les ménines et la vie 2 copies
Pablo Picasso: das graphische werk, Nationalgalerie, Mittelgeschoss, Oktober-November 1957 (1954) 2 copies
Pablo Picasso: Der artistische Prozess, das lithographische Werk (Katalog) (German Edition) (1993) 1 copy
Picasso : remek-djela iz Muzeja Picasso, Pariz : Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, 23. ožujka - 7. srpnja 2013. (2013) 1 copy
PICASSO - THE LAST DECADES 1 copy
Du 210: Picasso Tauromaco 1 copy
Mestre das Artes 1 copy
PICASSO Linoleum Cuts BACCHANALS WOMEN BULLS BULLFIGHTERS Introduction by Boeck (First Edition1962) (1962) 1 copy
Vuelve 1 copy
Picasso: 100 Gravures pour la Suite Vollard, 1930-1937. Juin-Juillet 1984, Galerie Patrick Cramer 1 copy
Picasso à Vallauris 1 copy
Conversations 1 copy
Homenaje de Málaga a Picasso 1 copy
Picasso poetes per la pau 1 copy
Zeichnungen, 27.3.66-15.3.68 1 copy
Picasso, 347 gravures 1 copy
Picasso Les dejeuners 1 copy
Guernica (oil on canvas) 1 copy
Pablo Picasso : das Spätwerk : Themen 1964-1972 : 6. September-8. November 1981, Kunstmuseum Basel 1 copy
2012 Pablo Picasso Wall Calendar (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch Edition) (2011) 1 copy
Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses, works from 1898 to 1973 from the Marina Picasso Collection (2002) 1 copy
Picasso : Volume IV : Catalogue of the printed graphic work 1970-1972 + Supplements Volume I + II 1 copy
Bull’s Head 1 copy
The Dove of Peace (pastel) 1 copy
Pablo Picasso : Lithographien und Linolschnitte aus dem Besitz der Albertina (1987) — Artist — 1 copy
Picasso. Das druckgrafische Werk — Artist — 1 copy
Picasso 1967-1970 Exhibition 1 copy
Pablo Picasso / Text by Hans L. C. Jaffé ; [Translated by Norbert Guterman] (1981) — Illustrator — 1 copy
Picasso : Volume I : Catalogue of the printed graphic work 1904-1967 — Illustrator — 1 copy
Picasso : Volume III : Catalogue of the printed ceramics 1949-1971 — Illustrator — 1 copy
Écrits: 1935-1959 1 copy
Woman with Baby Carriage 1 copy
The Tragedy 1 copy
The Lovers 1 copy
Still Life 1 copy
Le Gourmet 1 copy
Le Mystère Picasso 1 copy
156 gravures recentes 1 copy
Pablo Picasso drawings 1 copy
Picasso 1944 - 1969 1 copy
Pablo Picasso. Gravures 1 copy
Hommage a Pablo Picasso 1 copy
Hen with Chicks (etching) 1 copy
Cockerel (charcoal on paper) 1 copy
Homenaje al torero Claustro de Exposiciones, Palacio Provincial, 9 de mayo a 30 de junio, Cádiz 2002 (2002) 1 copy
Picasso Suite Vollard y Minotauromaquia : [Kunsthalle Rostock, 15 de agosto al 5 de octubre de 2003] (2003) 1 copy
The Dance (oil on canvas) 1 copy
Harlequin (oil on canvas) 1 copy
Las meninas 1 copy
Pablo Picasso; Galerie Vömel 1 copy
Picasso on paper: 104 graphic works, 1930-1971, December 6, 1980-January 2, 1981, Meridian House International (1980) 1 copy
Picasso, Corrida de toros, 1934 ; 15 de enero al 2 de mayo de 1999 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (1999) 1 copy
Picasso : Suite Vollard y minotauromaquia : [exposición], Kunsthalle Rostock, 15 august bis 5 oktober 2003 (2003) 1 copy
Picasso : peintures (Vauvenargues, 1959-1961); Galerie Louise Leiris, 26 janvier-23 février 1962 1 copy
Pablo Picasso; Lithographien 1 copy
Picasso, La célestine 1 copy
Kyubisumu no Pikaso ten = Pablo Picasso : focused on Cubist works from the Marina Picasso collection 1 copy
Gemälde 1 copy
Picasso : Huset i Mougins 1 copy
Picasso Guernica 2 1 copy
Cranach und Picasso 1 copy
Picasso : Graphik 1 copy
Picasso: Lithograph 1 copy
Three musicians 1 copy
Picasso : 60 ans de gravures 1 copy
Picasso, 1930-1935 1 copy
Portrait of a woman 1 copy
"A los toros" mit Picasso 1 copy
Mother and child 1 copy
Picasso; Der Zeichner; 1955 - 1972 : mit einem Essay von Richard Häsli herausgegeben von Jean Jouvet (1991) 1 copy
Picasso; Der Zeichner; 1893-1929 : mit einem Essay von Werner Spies herausgegeben von Jean Jouvet (1991) 1 copy
Picasso; Der Zeichner; 1930 - 1954 : mit einem Essay von Maurice Jardot herausgegeben von Jean Jouvet (1991) 1 copy
Picasso-Keramik 1 copy
Picasso, 51 peintures, 1904-1972 : [exposition, Galerie Louise Leiris, 17 mai-9 juin 1984 ... Paris] 1 copy
The Gourmet 1 copy
Pablo picasso, 1969-1970 1 copy
Picasso, sei tavole a colori 1 copy
Couleur de Picasso 1 copy
Guernica [Postcard] 1 copy
Picassos Klassizismus : Werke 1914-1934 [exhibition] Kunsthalle Bielefeld, April 17-July 31, 1988 1 copy
Picasso's Women: Graphics from the Marina Picasso Collection - Jan Krugier Gallery, New York - April 5 - 28, 1990 (1990) 1 copy
Picasso - 150 Handzeichnungen aus sieben Jahrzehnten. Ausstellung 29. Mai - 04. Juli 1965. (1965) 1 copy
Pablo Picasso. Carnet de Paris. Edizione in facsimile del taccuino dischizzi n.110.910 del museo Picasso di Barcellona (1995) 1 copy
Picasso-Giacometti: [album de l'exposition, Paris, Musée national Picasso, 4 octobre 2016-5 février 2017] (2016) 1 copy
Picasso: Master in Clay 1 copy
Picasso Suite Vollard, Minotauromachie, Traum und Lüge, Francos ; aus der Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen 1 copy
Das Licht hält sich die Augen zu: Radierzyklus und Spottgedicht "Traum und Lüge Francos" (Büchergilde Bilderbogen) (2020) 1 copy
Traum und Lüge Francos 1 copy
Picasso Pablo Picasso, Portrait, Figurine, Skulptur ; Stadthalle Balingen, 17. Juni - 20. Aug. '89 1 copy
Bull: a Flipbook 1 copy
Picasso, 1915-1973 1 copy
The Mystery of Picasso DVD 1 copy
Hommage a Pablo Picasso 1 copy
Graphiken 1 copy
Une collection Picasso : huiles, gouaches, dessins, collages et découpages : oeuvres de 1937 à 1946 1 copy
Hommage à Picasso: 90 Gravures presentées à l'Occasion de ses 90 ans le 25, Octobre, 1971, rare, €28 (1971) 1 copy
Picassos grafik 1 copy
Les grandes baigneuses de Picasso [exhibition] Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 22 novembre 1988-6 mars 1989 (1988) 1 copy
Epoques bleue et rose 1 copy
Tori e toreri 1 copy
Le Sauvetage (1932) 1 copy
Picasso : 1930-1935 1 copy
Associated Works
Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father (1960) — Cover artist, some editions — 1,285 copies, 32 reviews
Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (1968) — Contributor — 855 copies, 6 reviews
"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, in Two Volumes (1984) — Artist — 223 copies, 1 review
Children's Book of Art: An Introduction to the World's Most Amazing Paintings and Sculptures (DK Children's Book of) (2009) — Artist — 187 copies, 1 review
Picasso, The life and work of the artist illustrated with 80 color plates (1967) — Illustrator — 45 copies
The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems (1983) — Cover artist, some editions — 33 copies, 1 review
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contributor — 6 copies
Picasso: Collection of the Hakone Open-Air Museum — Artist — 2 copies
American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy Free (Volume 5, Number 19) (1955) — Illustrator — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Ruíz y Picasso, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito
- Birthdate
- 1881-10-25
- Date of death
- 1973-04-08
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Royal Academy of San Fernando (Madrid, Spain)
- Occupations
- artist
sculptor
painter - Relationships
- Gilot, Françoise (partner|1943-1953)
Picasso, Claude Ruiz (son|executor|1989-2023)
Picasso, Paloma (daughter)
Widmaier Picasso, Diana (granddaughter)
Picasso, Marina (granddaughter) - Nationality
- Spain
- Birthplace
- Malaga, Spain
- Places of residence
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Vallauris, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Malaga, Spain - Place of death
- Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France
- Burial location
- Castle Vauvenargues Estate Grounds, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Associated Place (for map)
- France
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Le dialogue entre la poésie et la peinture apparaît comme l'une des voies les plus caractéristiques de l'art moderne. Et ce dialogue des formes s'accompagne souvent d'un dialogue des artistes eux-mêmes qui, pour reprendre le propos de Blaise Cendrars, vivaient "mélangés, avec probablement les mêmes soucis", au moins dans le Paris d'avant la Première Guerre mondiale. La publication de la correspondance entre Picasso et Apollinaire permet désormais de suivre, pour ainsi dire en show more direct, entre 1905 et 1918, le dialogue d'une amitié toujours exigeante, souvent complice, parfois blessée aussi, nouée entre les deux artistes. Editée par Pierre Caizergues, spécialiste d'Apollinaire, et Hélène Seckel, conservateur au musée Picasso, cette correspondance inédite permet de nuancer l'image qu'on avait du peintre et du poète ; elle informe sur leur cheminement esthétique et surtout elle projette une lumière neuve sur leurs rapports familiers, sur leurs projets communs ou séparés dont certains étaient restés ignorés jusqu'ici. show less
The 100 etchings made by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 for the great art critic and dealer Ambroise Vollard have long been recognised as one of the supreme productions of the master's hand. These plates show, more than any of his other works, a man at once inspired by and prey to his dazzling imagination and the demands of his inner daemon.
This was the book that inspired Juan Felipe Herrera to write Laughing Out Loud, I Fly and Herrera’s book inspired me to read Picasso’s. While I was fascinated by Herrera’s book, I was less thrilled with Picasso’s, probably because his Spanish childhood memories seem more distant to me as an American.
Online bibliographic information indicates that this edition contains illustrations, but if so, alas, my second-hand copy has none.
Online bibliographic information indicates that this edition contains illustrations, but if so, alas, my second-hand copy has none.
cubism is not for me. 16 pictures, 90% cubism. the book itself is mouldy. will i die of cubism?
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