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Pablo Picasso
Autoportrait à la palette (Self-Portrait with a Palette), oil on canvas, Autumn 1906.
Born
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María Julio de los Remedios Crispín Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
NationalitySpanish
Known forPainting, Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name is Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. It has been estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics.


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Legacy

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Garçon à la pipe, which sold for US$104 million in 2004 — a record price at the time.

At the time of his death many of his paintings were in his possession, as he had kept off the art market what he didn't need to sell. In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of the work of other famous artists, some his contemporaries, such as Henri Matisse, with whom he had exchanged works. Since Picasso left no will, his death duties (estate tax) to the French state were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection. These works form the core of the immense and representative collection of the Musée Picasso in Paris. In 2003, relatives of Picasso inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace, Málaga, Spain, the Museo Picasso Málaga.

The Museu Picasso in Barcelona features many of Picasso's early works, created while he was living in Spain, including many rarely seen works which reveal Picasso's firm grounding in classical techniques. The museum also holds many precise and detailed figure studies done in his youth under his father's tutelage, as well as the extensive collection of Jaime Sabartés, Picasso's close friend from his Barcelona days who, for many years, was Picasso's personal secretary.

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In the aftermath of Picasso's death, at the suggestion of Dustin Hoffman, Paul McCartney wrote a song entitled "Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)" in tribute to him which was released on his album Band on the Run later that year.

The film Surviving Picasso was made about Picasso in 1996, as seen through the eyes of Françoise Gilot. Anthony Hopkins played Picasso in the movie.

Some paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world.


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Awards

Anecdotes and trivia

A man once criticized Picasso for creating unrealistic art. Picasso asked him: "Can you show me some realistic art?" The man showed him a photograph of his wife. Picasso observed: "So your wife is two inches tall, two-dimensional, with no arms and no legs, and no color but only shades of gray?"[2]

The Guinness Book of Records names Picasso as the most prolific painter ever.

Picasso suffered from dyslexia.[3]

Children

Lists of works

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L'Accordéoniste, a 1911 cubist painting by Picasso

References

Notes

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Sources

  • The Museum of Modern Art. Pablo Picasso, a retrospective. Ed. William Rubin, chronology by Jane Fluegel. New York. 1980. ISBN 0-87070-519-9
  • Cirlot, Juan-Eduardo (1972). Picasso: birth of a genius. New York and Washington: Praeger.
  • Cowling, Elizabeth; Mundy, Jennifer (1990). On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 1910-1930. London: Tate Gallery. ISBN 1-85437-043-X
  • Fitzgerald, Michael C. Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
  • Ledor, Kobi, MD. "A Guide to Collecting Picasso's Prints"
  • Mallen Enrique (2003). The Visual Grammar of Pablo Picasso. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics & Semiotics Series. Berlin: Peter Lang.
  • Mallen, Enrique (2005). La Sintaxis de la Carne: Pablo Picasso y Marie-Thérèse Walter. Santiago de Chile: Red Internacional del Libro.
  • Picasso, Olivier Widmaier. (2004). Picasso: The Real Family Story. Prestel Publ. ISBN 3-7913-3149-3
  • Rubin, William, ed. (1980) Pablo Picasso, a retrospective. Chronology by Jane Fluegel. Museum of Modern Art|The Museum of Modern Art. New York. ISBN 0-87070-519-9
  • Wattenmaker, Richard J.; Distel, Anne, et al. (1993). Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40963-7

See also

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