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Born: October 25, 1881; Málaga, Spain Died: April 8, 1973; Mougins, France Active Years: 1895 - 1973Nationality: Spani...
23/10/2025

Born: October 25, 1881; Málaga, Spain
Died: April 8, 1973; Mougins, France
Active Years: 1895 - 1973
Nationality: Spanish
Art Movement: Cubism, Post-Impressionism, Surrealism
Painting School: École de Paris
Field: painting, sculpture, drawing, lithography, graphics
Influenced by: Marc Chagall, Henri Rousseau, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Nicolas Poussin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Rembrandt, Diego Velazquez, Antoine Watteau, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Matthias.

Artwork: Farm Woman
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso)
Born: October 25, 1881; Málaga, Spain
Died: April 8, 1973; Mougins, France 🇫🇷
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸
Created: 1908
Genre: Portrait
Medium and techniques: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 810 mm × 560 mm
Location: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Influenced on: Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner, Jackson Po***ck, Robert Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, Karel Appel, Balcomb Greene, Francis Bacon, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Salvador Dali, Tamara de Lempicka, Vilhelm Lundstrom, Alan Tellez, Beauford Delaney, Russ Warren, David Chethlahe Paladin, Cubism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art
Art institution: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
Friends and Co-workers: Georges Braque, Constantin Brâncuși, Man Ray, Max Jacob, Amedeo Modigliani, Christopher Wood, Mykhailo Boychuk, C. R. W. Nevinson, Valentine Hugo, Lee Miller, Juan Gris, Jacqueline Lamba.

Crossing the Seine by Picasso" refers to the 1901 painting Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck (Sur l'impériale travers...
15/10/2025

Crossing the Seine by Picasso" refers to the 1901 painting Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck (Sur l'impériale traversant la Seine). It is an early work from his Blue Period and depicts passengers on the top deck of a horse-drawn omnibus as it crosses a bridge over the Seine River in Paris. The painting is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artwork: Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck (Sur l'impériale traversant la Seine).
Artist: Pablo Picasso.
Created: 1901.
Subject: The painting shows passengers on the top level of a two-tiered, horse-drawn omnibus as it crosses a bridge over the Seine.
Period: The work is from the early phase of Picasso's Blue Period, a transitional time that blends Impressionist and Post-Impressionist influences with the emotional introspection that would define his Blue Period.
Medium and techniques: Oil on cardboard.
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago

Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.🇫🇷)
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso,
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973 (age 91 years), Mougins, France
Periods: Cubism, Surrealism, Modern art, Picasso's Blue Period, Picasso's Rose Period, Modernism Influenced by: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya,
Vincent Van Gogh, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, Alfred Jarry, Sara Murphy.
Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Education: San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy.

14/07/2025

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Musketeer with a Pipe" is a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso, particularly known from the late 1960s. The works depi...
14/07/2025

Musketeer with a Pipe" is a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso, particularly known from the late 1960s. The works depict a musketeer figure, often in vibrant colors and bold, fragmented forms characteristic of Picasso's late style. One specific painting, also sometimes referred to as Le Cavalier (Mousquetaire à la pipe), was painted on October 13, 1968, and is notable for its large scale and the way Picasso captures the musketeer's attire with a collage-like effect of pure color and brushwork. Another, Mousquetaire à la pipe II, painted on November 5, 1968, features the musketeer with a pipe, seated and at ease, with a playful exuberance.

Artwork: Musketeer with a Pipe (Mousquetaire à la pipe)
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.🇫🇷)
Created: 1968
Movement: Picasso's Blue Period, Cubism, Surrealism
Médium and techniques: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1,451 mm x 965 mm
Current location: Private Collection, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Pablo Ruiz Picasso,
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973 (age 91 years), Mougins, France
Periods: Cubism, Surrealism, Modern art, Picasso's Blue Period, Picasso's Rose Period, Modernism Influenced by: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya,
Vincent Van Gogh, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, Alfred Jarry, Sara Murphy.
Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Education: San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy

« The subject is a strange choice, because there is no iconographic or narrative link to Romain Rolland's enthusiastic p...
10/07/2025

« The subject is a strange choice, because there is no iconographic or narrative link to Romain Rolland's enthusiastic play. There is evidence, though, that the artist did try a Revolutionary design but did not have the time to complete it. There is a curious drawing dated June 13, 1936 which shows a joyful crowd with what looks like a symbolic reference to the taking of the Bastille. On the other hand, Picasso was obsessed by personal allusions at the time with reference to mythology and bullfighting. You can see in the curtain the confrontation of good and evil, the victory of youth, and beauty conquering menace, which was a logical rapprochement of the epic themes of both Picasso and Rolland. »
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Artwork: The Remains of the Minotaur in a Harlequin Costume
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.🇫🇷)
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸
Movement styles:
Picasso's Rose Period, Post-Impressionism
Period: Rose 🌹 Period painting
Created: 1936
Genre: Symbolic painting 🖼️
Medium and techniques: Tempera on canvas
Dimensions: 900 cm x 1200 cm
Location: Espace d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France 🇫🇷

PICASSO, perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. Picasso’s sizable oeuvre grew to include over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs. He painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), in response to the Spanish Civil War; the totemic grisaille canvas remains a definitive work of anti-war art. At auction, a number of Picasso’s paintings have sold for more than $100 million. The indefatigable artist has been the subject of exhibitions at the world’s most prestigious institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art and Centre Pompidou to the Stedelijk Museum and Tate Modern.
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About PICASSO Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, SpainDied: 8 April 1973 (age 91 years), Mougins, FrancePeriods: Cubism, Mod...
07/07/2025

About PICASSO
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973 (age 91 years), Mougins, France
Periods: Cubism, Modern art, Picasso's Blue Period, Surrealism, Modernism, Picasso's Rose Period · See more
Influenced by: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, Paul Gauguin · See more
Children: Paloma Picasso, Paulo Picasso, Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso, Maya Widmaier-Picasso
Height: 1.63 m

Artwork: WOMAN WATCH or Femme àl'horloge
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.🇫🇷)
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸
Education: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Years active: 1897–1973
Known for: Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing
Notable artworks:
La Vie (1903)
The Old Guitarist (1903–1904)
Family of Saltimbanques (1905)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910)
Three Musicians (1921)
Girl before a Mirror (1932)
Le Rêve (1932)
Guernica (1937)
The Weeping Woman (1937)
Movement: Blue period, Cubism, Surrealism, Modernism
Created: 1936
Medium and techniques: Oil on canvas
Location: Musée Picasso, Paris, France 🇫🇷

Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso,
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973 (age 91 years), Mougins, France
Periods: Cubism, Surrealism, Modern art, Picasso's Blue Period, Picasso's Rose Period, Modernism Influenced by: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya,
Vincent Van Gogh, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, Alfred Jarry, Sara Murphy.
Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Education: San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy

« A sculptural ambiguous setting »« Seated Bather on the Beach," painted by Pablo Picasso in 1929, is a notable Surreali...
03/07/2025

« A sculptural ambiguous setting »

« Seated Bather on the Beach," painted by Pablo Picasso in 1929, is a notable Surrealist artwork currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. The painting depicts a female figure in a fragmented, abstracted form, characteristic of Picasso's style during his surrealist phase. The muted color palette of blues, browns, and greys, along with the ambiguous horizon line, contribute to the dreamlike and unsettling atmosphere. »

Surrealist Style:
The painting exemplifies Surrealism's interest in exploring the subconscious and challenging conventional realism.

Ambiguous Setting:
The background suggests a beach scene, but the horizon line is blurred, creating a sense of disorientation and blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination.

Artwork: Seated Bather on the Beach
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.🇫🇷)
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸
Created: 1929
Medium and techniques: Oil on canvas
1,630 mm × 1,295 mm
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 🇺🇸

Pablo Ruiz Picasso,
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973 (age 91 years), Mougins, France
Periods: Cubism, Surrealism, Modern art, Picasso's Blue Period, Picasso's Rose Period, Modernism Influenced by: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya,
Vincent Van Gogh, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, Alfred Jarry, Sara Murphy.
Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Education: San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy

Sculpture name: Seated Woman, Femme assise 🪑; Boisgeloup 1931.Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) wa...
03/07/2025

Sculpture name: Seated Woman, Femme assise 🪑; Boisgeloup 1931.
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.🇫🇷)
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸

Pablo Ruiz Picasso,
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973 (age 91 years), Mougins, France
Periods: Cubism, Surrealism, Modern art, Picasso's Blue Period, Picasso's Rose Period, Modernism Influenced by: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya,
Vincent Van Gogh, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, Alfred Jarry, Sara Murphy.
Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Education: San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy

I also looked at the strange place: I was expecting an artist's studio, but it was an apartment turned pigsty. No middle...
03/07/2025

I also looked at the strange place: I was expecting an artist's studio, but it was an apartment turned pigsty. No middle-class home had ever been less middle class in its furnishings. Four or five rooms - each with a marble fireplace with a mirror above it - were entirely devoid of all their usual furnishings but filled with piles of paintings, cardboard boxes, parcels, and bundles, most of them ———-

Picasso in the upstairs studio in 1932, in front of Henri Rousseau's Portrait of a Woman 1895
Photograph by Brassai.

—————-The window faced south and offered a fine view of the rooftops of Paris, bristling with a forest of red and black chimneys; in the distance the slender silhouette of the Eiffel Tower could be seen. Mme Picasso never came up to this apartment. Except for a few friends, Picasso allowed no one in. The dust could settle and fall wherever it liked, without fear of some Cleaning woman's feather duster.' ( # Brassaï, Conversations with Picasso, pp.4-5)

*In 1917, while Picasso was in Spain introducing his young fiancée, Olga Kochlova [sic], to his family. his Montrouge st...
03/07/2025

*In 1917, while Picasso was in Spain introducing his young fiancée, Olga Kochlova [sic], to his family. his Montrouge studio was flooded. He asked Paul Rosenberg, his new art dealer ... to find lodgings for him and to move his things there. Rosenberg rented him an apartment in the building next to his gallery. At his dealer's wish, Picasso was thrust into the new geographic center of the art business.
As at the Bateau-Lavoir, he again rented one,

Olga Picasso in the downstairs family apartment, rue La Boétie.
Protographs of the artiar by Cecil Beaton, 1933
Brassaï, Conversations with Picasso, pp.6-7

There were none of the extraordinary furnishings he was so crazy about, none of the strange objects he liked to have around him, there were no piles, nothing scattered about, as was his wont. Olga jealously made sure that (Brassaï, Conversations with Picasso, pp.6-7), Picasso did not impose the powerful imprint of his personality on a realm she considered hers alone.'

Known for: Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writingNotable work: La Vie (1903)The Old ...
01/07/2025

Known for: Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing
Notable work:
La Vie (1903)
The Old Guitarist (1903–1904)
Family of Saltimbanques (1905)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910)
Three Musicians (1921)
Girl before a Mirror (1932)
Le Rêve (1932)
Guernica (1937)
The Weeping Woman (1937)
Spouses: Olga Khokhlova (m. 1918; sep. 1941)​
Jacqueline Roque ​(m. 1961)​

Artwork: Mother and Child or The Sad Mother
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.🇫🇷)
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸
Created: ca. 1901
Movement styles: Blue period (here)
Picasso's Rose Period, Post-Impressionism
Period: Rose 🌹 Period paintings
Medium and techniques: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 112 cm x 97.5 cm
Location: Harvard Art Museum Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 🇺🇸

The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (founded in 1958), the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (founded in 2002), the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies (founded in 1928). The three museums that constitute the Harvard Art Museums were initially integrated into a single institution under the name Harvard University Art Museums in 1983. The word "University" was dropped from the institutional name in 2008.

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