Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso in January 1962.
Birth name	Pablo Diego Jos Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mara de los Remedios Cipriano de Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y the Picasso
Activity (s)	Painting , sculpture , drawing , gemmail , ceramics , etching , lithography , writing
Birth	25 October 1881 Malaga
Deaths	8 April 1973 (91 years) Mougins
Movement (s)	Cubism , Surrealism
Training	Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
Major works
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Guernica (1937)
Supplements
Founder of Cubism with Georges Braque Father of designer Paloma Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso, born in Malaga , Spain , on 25 October 1881 and died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins , France , is a painter, draftsman and sculptor Spanish , and Maria Picasso Lopez. His full name is Pablo Diego Jos Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mara de los Remedios Cipriano de Santisima Trinidad Martyr Patricio the Ruiz y Picasso . The name of Picasso, which is not actually very Spanish, is by some writers of Italian origin. One of his great-grandfathers was born in Sori in the region of Genoa . According to Robert Maillard however the family is not native to Italy ^, . Pablo had two sisters but no brother.

In 1891, the provincial museum of Malaga, including Jos Ruiz Picasso was the conservative, closed its doors, forcing the father to find alternative livelihoods. The family moved to La Coruna and Jos Ruiz Picasso holds a professorship at the institute Da Guarda. Don Jos was appointed professor at La Lonja in Barcelona in 1895.

The beginner painter

The artist signs his paintings over the name Ruiz Blasco but that of Picasso from 1901

Picasso, encouraged by his father who gave him confidence , all painted his first pictures at age eight, his favorite being the little yellow picador ( 1889 ), his first oil painting, which he always refused to separate. During the summer of 1895, Pablo discovers Madrid and Barcelona , and spends his holidays in Malaga and returned by sea to Barcelona. On this occasion, he made the trip Marines. It was during the winter of 1895, he painted his first large canvas Academic: First Communion. That same year he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Barcelona. He signed his first works Ruiz-Picasso before opting for PR-Picasso to Picasso and then permanently in 1901 because of the strangeness of the name and sounding ss uncommon in Spanish .

After his departure for Barcelona in 1896, he was admitted to the School of La Longa, where his father taught, having performed in one day the subject of review in which generally one month is allowed for candidates . It was in 1896 , he painted The Choirboy . Don Jos he rents a studio then rue de la Plata where he paints Science and Charity (1896), one of his most important paintings of his childhood. For this, his father thought that the composition shows a patient lying on a pallet, assisted by a doctor (Picasso realized portrait of his father) and a nun. The scene is the exposure of Fine Arts in Madrid an honorary mention .

The cafe Els Quatre Gats frequented by Julio Gonzlez , Picasso and Gargallo.

In September 1897 , Picasso went to study in Madrid and succeeded in October the entrance to the Royal Academy of San Fernando. However teaching institution does not please him and he gives up the courses. In June 1898 , he returned to Barcelona, then went for Horta , the village of his friend Pallares, located near the town of Gandesa where he shared the life of peasants. Later, he will say "All I know, I've learned in the village of Pallares' . In April 1899 he was again back to Barcelona , where he settled at ^No. 1 Rue des Escudillers. Picasso frequented the tavern Els Quatre Gats , the bohemian cabaret lighthouse, established in reference to the Black Cat in Paris. There, he meets Miguel Utrillo , and befriended the poet Jaime Sabartes , Carlos Casagemas , Opisso the painter, the sculptor Julio Gonzalez. An exhibition of his paintings was held in the cabaret ¹ February 1900 .

Picasso hand with Casagemas which is very close to Paris where he settled in the artist's studio Nonell to Montmartre. Picasso it permeates the atmosphere at the Moulin de la Galette and meet the merchant Pedro Manach and Berthe Weill who buys three scenes of bullfighting , the first paintings he sells in Paris . It also sells some pastels to amateurs . He returned to Barcelona on December 20 , with Casagemas Picasso brings with him to Malaga and out of his melancholy . In mid- January 1901 , Picasso moved to Madrid. On February 17 , Casagemas, after attempting to kill his lover Germaine who was a dancer's fickle Moulin Rouge , committed suicide in Paris . Picasso, distraught by the death of his friend paint a picture of Death Casegemas key which says it has conditioned its passage largely blue period , filled with grief, sadness and referring to the great masters Spanish. In April 1901 , he returned to Barcelona and then in May, he returned to Paris and settled at 130 ter Boulevard de Clichy in Pedro Manach who lodged for a few months in his personal apartment and offered him a salary .

Blue Period

The blue period corresponds to the years 1,901 - 1904 : This name comes from the fact that blue is the dominant color of his paintings from this period, which began with the suicide of his Spanish friend Carlos Casagemas , which explains that it is marked by melancholy themes of death, old age and poverty, but does not prevent him from being satirical. During these years, Picasso painted the poor, beggars, and blind, as characters often drawn and famished inspired by the paintings of El Greco that Picasso studied at that time and who have a strong influence . The first table in this period was the Death of Casagemas, and important works are: Dama Eden in Concert (1903), La Vida (1903), Las dos hermanas (1904), La Celestina (1904).

Between 25 June and 14 July 1901 , Picasso and Iturrino make an exhibition at the gallery of Ambroise Vollard in Paris. Picasso met the poet Max Jacob. During the winter, he painted self-portrait blue (Paris, Muse Picasso). End January 1902 , he went to Barcelona. Berthe Weill gallery, exhibits from ¹ to April 15 works of Lemaire and Picasso. He returned to Paris in October with Sebastian Juni. And it shows for the first time his paintings of blue on November 15 to December 15 in a group exhibition at Berthe Weill. In January 1903 , Picasso is back to Barcelona. In the spring, he began painting life (Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts).

Rose Period (1904-1906)

Modigliani , Picasso and Andr Salmon , before La Rotonde in Paris in 1916.

From 1905 , he moved to Paris , the boat wash-house , in the workshop left by Paco Durrio. There he meets his first companion, Fernande Olivier. This is the beginning of the Rose Period. As before, it is the use of colors "Rougee" which explains the name. The themes are the joy and existential anxiety. It is sad and dominated by love, there are also many references to the world of zoo and circus. He painted masks, harlequins, clowns and animal trainers. Privilegia Picasso during this period work on the line, drawing, rather than the color ... It is also the time of maternity roses.

Picasso first met Guillaume Apollinaire and Andr Salmon.

From 25 February to 6 March 1905 , Picasso exhibits at the gallery Locksmith his first paintings roses. In spring he painted The Acrobats (Washington, National Gallery). During the summer he made a trip to Schoorl in Holland , and there painted the Three Dutch (Paris, Muse National d'Art Moderne , deposit Picasso Museum ).

In the fall, he met Gertrude and Leo Stein. We're starting to find his paintings in the theme of death. Especially in his painting Harlequin he did gift in 1919 Museo de Arte Moderna in Barcelona. Gertrude Stein introduced him to Matisse , winter 1906. The gallery Ambroise Vollard bought most of the stars rose in March. In May, he left with Fernande Olivier to Barcelona , then during the summer Gsol , a remote village high- Catalonia. This trip will have a major impact in the work of Picasso. In this little town in the province of Lleida he conceives Les Demoiselles d'Avignon , a painting that is a momentous occasion in the early days of Cubism .

The portrait of Gertrude Stein (New York, Museum of Modern Art), started in winter, is finally completed with a painting by Cezanne, "Madame Cezanne in the range" as Gertrude Stein had acquired the autumn fair in 1904.

African influences

From 1907 to 1909, Picasso was under the influence of African art, including the Congolese art . This period was marked initially by the two figures on the right side of the Demoiselles d'Avignon , which were partly inspired by African masks that Picasso had.

Cubism

Portrait of Picasso by Juan Gris (1912) in the style of Cubist.

From 1907 to 1914 , he directed with Georges Braque paintings that will be called "cubist". They are characterized by a search on the geometry and shapes represented: all the objects end up divided and reduced to simple geometric shapes, often square. This actually means that an object is not shown as it appears clearly, but by codes corresponding to its known reality. Cubism is also represented on a canvas in a two-dimensional object space. Picasso breaks the image into multiple facets (or cubes, hence the name of Cubism ) and destroyed the forms of the real plunge into strange figures sometimes (like a figure on half a face, and on the other side). This technique, initiated by Picasso and Braque had many followers such as Juan Gris , Francis Picabia , Brancusi , and Delaunay , Albert Gleizes.

The seminal work of Cubism is Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. This painting was begun during the winter 1906-1907, and completed in early July 1907.

Earlier this summer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler made a first visit to the Boat Laundry. In October, held a retrospective of Cezanne at the Salon d'Automne. During winter 1908, Picasso painted The Friendship (Leningrad, Hermitage), Standing Nude (Boston Fine Arts Museum). He stayed at the Rue-des-Bois, a village 60 km north of Paris during the summer and in October he moved the final three women (Leningrad, Hermitage).

In May 1909 , Picasso goes to Barcelona , Horta de Ebro and with Fernande Olivier. There, he painted landscapes ( New York , MOMA ). In Paris in September, he moved to 11 Boulevard de Clichy , and makes sculptures: Head of Fernande (Paris, Muse Picasso). In 1910 , he made portraits of Ambroise Vollard ( Moscow , Pushkin Museum ), of Uhde (St. Louis, Pulitzer Collection) and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler ( Chicago Art Institute). Picasso moved to Ceret , a village in French Catalonia, in the Pyrenees-Orientales , in July 1911. Fernande Olivier and Braque joined him in August . On 5 September he returned to Paris. Picasso Cubist absent from the room at the Salon d'Automne which begins October ^1.

In the fall, enters her life, Eva Gouel , which he calls "my pretty" in several of his paintings.

The first collages and assemblages are first made during the winter 1912 , Still Life with Chair Caning (Paris, Muse Picasso), Guitar (s) fiber (Paris, Muse Picasso). May 18, he moved to Ceret in Avignon June 25 and moved to Sorgue. He moved to 242 Boulevard Raspail. Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler signed Dec. 18 letter-contract. To the 10 March 1913 , he returned with Eva Gouel, suffering, where they stay in Ceret all summer . The glass of absinthe is painted in spring 1914. After the departure for Avignon in June, he returned to the portrait, in July. Eva died on 14 December 1915.

Three forms of Cubism emerged: the prcubisme or Cubism Cezanne, the Analytical Cubism and Synthetic Cubism.

The Ballets Russes

During the First World War , Picasso lived in Rome with Jean Cocteau , from 17 February 1916. He settled Via Margutta, where he sees the Villa Medici. Besides numerous portraits drawn, he painted The Italian Harlequin and woman in the collar. In May, Cocteau presents Diaghilev to Picasso. He works as a designer for the ballet Parade of Leonide Massine and the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev , with music of Erik Satie. He met Stravinsky and the dancer Olga Khokhlova , who became his wife. In a decorative vein, Picasso made several portraits of her and their son (Paul Pierrot 1925).

End March 1917 , he traveled to Naples and Pompeii and returned to Paris in late April. On May 18 , the first Parade was held at the Chatelet. Then in June, Picasso moved to Madrid with Diaghilev's troupe and Olga, and July 12, a banquet hosted in his honor at Barcelona.

From 23 January to 15 February 1918 , Picasso exhibited with Matisse in Paul Guillaume. He married Olga the Russian church in Paris on July 12. Cocteau , Max Jacob and Apollinaire were the witnesses. During a stay in Biarritz , he painted The Bathers (Paris, Muse Picasso).

In May 1919 , Picasso moved to London to work in The Three-Cornered Hat ballet with music by Manuel de Falla. During the summer, he stays in Biarritz Madame Errazuriz Olga then moved to Saint-Raphael (Cte d'Azur).

His son Paulo was born on 4 February 1921. During the summer, he moved with Olga and Paulo Fontainebleau. He painted Women in the fountain (Paris, Picasso Museum and New York, Museum of Modern Art) and The Three Musicians (New York, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art). In June 1922 , during a visit to Dinard (Brittany, Cte de la Manche), he painted Two Women Running on the beach (The race) (Paris, Muse Picasso). Then in December, he directed the setting for The Antigone of Cocteau , established by Charles Dullin at Theatre Workshop. In 1923 , he made a new summer residence on the Cote d'Azur ( Cap d'Antibes ) and painted the panpipes (Paris, Muse Picasso). And it was in 1924 , in summer, while he is at the Villa La Vigie in Juan-les-Pins (Cte d'Azur), he does his diary that he painted abstract designs and Paul Harlequin (Paris, Muse Picasso).

During this period of the 1920s , in an atmosphere of worldly recognition, he painted pictures marked by a return to figuration and classicism: Three Women at the Fountain (1921), and works inspired by mythology as the Panpipes (1923).

Surrealism

"Head of a Woman", Halmstad, Sweden

The year 1925 was that of a radical break in the production of the painter. He painted pictures showing very violent creatures misshapen, seizures, taken in the toils of a hysterical rage: Woman in an armchair (1926) and Bather Seat (1930). The influence of poets Surrealist was undeniable in this desire to paint from inside the personal hell. But he adopted a more pragmatic approach than the "dream modeled on the canvas" of the Surrealists.

In June-July 1925 , he completed The Dance and The Painted Kiss. On November 14 he participated in the first Surrealist exhibition at Galerie Pierre. In 1926 , he painted the painter and his model, which marks his meeting with Marie-Therese Walter in the end of this year, while it is still a minor ^, . It performs the guitar (s) of nails.

He runs the large collage of the Minotaur in January 1928. Picasso then need technical assistance, in particular to develop models of the Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire, which was commissioned in 1922. Some years earlier he had renewed his friendship with the craftman and Catalan sculptor Julio Gonzlez , met in Barcelona from time to Els Quatre Gats , and living with him in Paris since 1900. Picasso designed naturally to him, and they begin, the fall of 1928 until July 1932 , a successful technical collaboration around the sculptures and welded wrought iron . In spring 1929 he sculpted iron welded Woman in the Garden Workshop Gonzlez, who later realized the bronze in 1932. That year also his last vacation to Dinard. He paints the Grand naked red armchair, and in February 1930 , Crucifixion. In the fall of 1930 , Marie-Therese moved at 44, rue de la Boetie. He bought the castle Boisgeloup , near Gisors , 80 km north-west of Paris , in June, and settled there until the end of 1932.

He spent the summer holidays 1933 in Cannes with Olga and Paulo.

Two figures in the sea is painted in January 1931 , and March, Still Life on a pedestal. That year, also sees the publication of two major books: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Lausanne, Skira) and The Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac (Paris, Ambroise Vollard).

In 1932 , Girl before the mirror is finished. A retrospective at the Galerie Georges Petit, then the a href = "Kunsthaus_de_Zurich" alt = "Kunsthaus Zurich"> Kunsthaus Zurich, in June. Picasso worked in Boisgeloup heads sculpted by Marie-Therese and the series of drawings from The Crucifixion by Matthias Grunewald.

From June to September 1934 , he made a series of bullfights, painted, drawn and engraved. In August, he traveled to Spain with Olga and Paulo, and went to the bullfights of Burgos and Madrid. He visited the Museum of Catalan Art of Barcelona. He made a series of sculptures cast texture: Male Female foliage and orange. In spring 1935 , the gallery displays collages Pierre. Minotauromachie is engraved. It separates Olga in June, and October 5 , born Maya Picasso , with his daughter Marie-Therese Walter.

On 25 March 1936 saw the departure of Picasso secret with Marie-Therese and Maya Juan-les-Pins. He gouaches and drawings on the theme of the Minotaur. That same year, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War , he was appointed director of the Prado Museum in Madrid. In early August, Picasso moved to Mougins and Dora Maar joined him there.

Guernica and pacifism

Plaque on the house in the Rue des Grands Augustins where Picasso lived in the years 1930-40 ( overview ).

Mural painting of Guernica

Following the bombing of Guernica on 26 April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War , horrified by this crime, Picasso embarked on the creation of one of his most famous works: Guernica and he said: "This painting is not made to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war, offensive and defensive against the enemy. . It symbolizes the horror of war and anger felt by Picasso to the death of many innocent victims caused by the bombing of Nazi planes at the request of General Franco. Guernica was exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exhibition Paris in 1937.

Legend has it that Otto Abetz , the Nazi regime's ambassador to Paris who asked him to a photo of the painting of Guernica , a little indignantly during a visit to his studio: "It was you who did this ? "Picasso reportedly replied:" No ... it's you " , he discusses the story, saying it is "almost true" and says that in reality he distributed to German visitors of the 1940 pictures reproducing the table, the taunting of "Take them. Memories, memories! . If he feels close to the ideals of the party, he will never be an active member, keeping his total freedom of expression and taking positions mainly through his paintings including denouncing the Korean War in 1951 and advocating against the Peace War in many works. Picasso even be subjected to numerous conflicts with the leadership of the PCF, such as a portrait of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

Strongly opposed to the war, Picasso painted the famous Dove of Peace (1949) on the occasion of his accession to the World Peace Council. It receives as such an international prize for peace in 1955. The appeal of the doves in the painter back to his childhood, where his father used pigeons as models that Picasso was going to take with him to school .

Period Vallauris

Picasso in 1962 with Edward Gable (left) and Andr Verdet (left) at the opening of the exhibition Soshana in the Chateau Grimaldi in Antibes.

On 7 October 1944 opened the Salon d'Automne and the Picasso retrospective. The Charnel House (New York, Museum of Modern Art) is painted in April- May 1945 from the memory of the discovery in December 1944 , the body tortured his young friend the surrealist poet Robert Rius. Share with Picasso Dora Maar for the Cap d'Antibes in July, and November 26 Francoise returned to live with Picasso. In 1946 , Picasso joined Frances to Golfe-Juan , he visited Henri Matisse in Nice. Then in July, with Frances, he moved to Mnerbes ( Vaucluse ). In August, he moved to Fort Louis in Golfe-Juan , and begins work at the Chteau d'Antibes in October.

On 15 May 1947 , his son was born Claude. In June, he left for Golfe-Juan. When visiting Picasso Vallauris in the summer of 1946, he went to George and Suzanne Ramie and model three ceramic pieces. When he returns next year, he found his parts and then begins an intense period of ceramic production that is estimated to nearly 4500 pieces. He settled in Vallauris in 1948 with Francoise Gilot. On 25 August 1948 , Picasso was the Congress of Intellectuals for Peace in Wroclaw. He returned to Vallauris in mid-September. He painted two versions of The Kitchen (one is currently at the Picasso Museum in Paris and one in the Museum of Modern Art in New York ).

In February 1949 , Colombia was chosen by Aragon for the poster of the Peace Congress opens in Paris on April 20. On 19 April 1949 , was born Paloma. On 6 August 1950 , Laurent Casanova Man opens in sheep in Vallauris. Picasso runs The Goat, The Woman in the stroller, the Girl Skipping Rope. On 15 January 1951 , he painted Massacre in Korea.

In 1952 , he designed the War and Peace for the decoration of the chapel in Vallauris , he wrote a second play: The Four Little Girls.

The case of the Portrait of Stalin in the French literature takes place in March 1953. Francoise Gilot left for Paris with the children.

Pablo Picasso signed in 1954 , during the realization of his series of fifty Gemmaux.

He made portraits of Sylvette David in April 1954. In June, he met Jacqueline Roque. In December, starts the series of variations on the Women of Algiers Delacroix. He settled in May 1955 , with Jacqueline, the villa California to Cannes. In June, held a retrospective at the Museum of Decorative Arts. During the summer he worked with Henri-Georges Clouzot the film The Mystery of Picasso. He discovered gemmail and decided to make Woman in a wicker chair and a fifty works will be presented next year in the United States at the Metropolitan Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago ... .

In 1956 , The Bathers, woodcarvings (Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie) are cast in bronze. He painted L'Atelier de California.

Castle Vauvenargues at the foot of Mount Sainte-Victoire , where Picasso lived from 1958 until his death in 1973 and in the park where he is buried.

On 17 August 1957 , he began work on Las Meninas (Barcelona, Picasso Museum). On 29 March 1958 took place the presentation of the decoration for UNESCO : The Fall of Icarus. In September, Picasso bought the castle Vauvenargues in which he moved the next year telling his astonished friend and dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler : "I bought the Sainte-Victoire by Cezanne. Which? True . He painted the Bay of Cannes.

Early drawings from The Luncheon on the Grass Manet are made on 10 August 1959.

He married Jacqueline in Vallauris on 2 March 1961 , and June, moved to Notre Dame mas-de-Vie in Mougins (near Cannes). He works on the laminations and painted the chair, with arms outstretched Woman, Woman Child, footballers. In November 1962 , he painted the Rape of the Sabine which version is in the Muse National d'Art Moderne in Paris.

The opening of the retrospective at the Grand Palais and Petit Palais takes place 19 November 1966. In spring 1967, Picasso was evicted from his studio in the rue des Grands-Augustins . Jacqueline Roque will itself later buried alongside Picasso in 1986.

An exhibition of 201 paintings was held at the Palace of the Popes of Avignon from May to September 1973.

Descent

Picasso had four children:

• Paulo Picasso ( 4 February 1921 - 5 June 1975 ), with Olga Khokhlova
• Maya Widmaier-Picasso (born 5 September 1935 ) with Marie-Therese Walter
• Claude Picasso (born 15 May 1947 ) with Francoise Gilot
• Paloma Picasso (born 19 April 1949 ) with Francoise Gilot

Zooms on the work

Guernica, a work that still bothers

Since 1985 , a reproduction of Guernica seat at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations in New York. It was placed there to remember the horrors of war. Nevertheless, 5 February 2003 , a large blue veil covering the powerful anti-war work, while Colin Powell and John Negroponte tried to find support for the war in Iraq to the Security Council. According to U.S. diplomats, "it would be inappropriate for Colin Powell speaks to the media world of the war in Iraq between the image of a dying horse and a mother holding her dead child in the hands," claiming that a background blue would be better for television broadcast that the colors gray and black picture .

Picasso and bullfighting

Picador.

The bullfight is an important theme throughout the work of Picasso, from its beginnings as the child artist until the end of his life . As a boy, he goes with his father in the arenas of Malaga and is then in France, Arles , at Nimes and throughout the south it continues to follow the fairs. This passion of his childhood never left him. He confessed that he had to choose, it would have been picador not bullfighter . Fervent aficionado, it brings in its wake a world of intellectuals. By 1910, he initiated Georges Braque and Max Jacob in the art of bullfighting .

His first known painting of bullfighting in 1889 and is called Little Yellow picador. Disemboweled horse of 1917 is a first approach of what later became the horse of Guernica . The theme of the Minotaur , the bull inspired and Greek legends, is back in a series of works for strong sexual commonly grouped under the title Minotauromachie as the Minotaur and the Maiden (1934-1936) . It is in this style of "Minotauromachie" in 1930 that illustrates the Metamorphoses of Ovid . In 1933, he directed coverage of the No. 1 magazine surreal the Minotaur founded by Georges Bataille and published by Albert Skira on 25 May 1933 .

By 1930, Picasso has already resulted in the arenas Robert Desnos , Francis Picabia , Jean Cocteau , Paul Eluard and Char . In September 1933 he painted Boisgeloup The Death of the bullfighter, and later fully abstract period, he delivered a Still Life matador's sword (1943). After the war, he goes to arenas with George Bataille and Michel Leiris and Vallauris in 1948, is organizing bullfights attract celebrities .

But his most important contribution to the art of bullfighting Toros y Toreros his book, published in 1953 with text by his friend, the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin .

Finally, the Corrida is also very present in his important work ceramic .

Scripture and illustrated books

In 1931, he participated in the publication of two major books accompanied by prints : The Metamorphoses of Ovid , with 30 engravings in the etching and The Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac , with 13 prints to the etching. In total, Picasso illustrate over 150 books during his life including masterpieces of the ^twentieth century : The Song of the deaths of Pierre Reverdy with 125 lithographs, the Celestina of Fernando de Rojas , with 66 etchings and aquatints. Twenty Poems of Luis de Gngora with 41 etchings and aquatints, The Natural History of Buffon with 31 etchings with aquatint, the Tauromaquia (1959) with 27 engravings in etching and aquatint and also Toros y Toreros ( 1961) with a text on the bullfight Luis Miguel Dominguin , and a study of George Boudaille. A deluxe edition printed in 150 copies includes a suite of 15 drawings on Arches paper and lithography.

In 1935 , he worked intensely on writing poems, writing nearly 400 over a short period . During the Second World War , Picasso wrote in 1941 a theater-style surrealist , Desire Caught by the tail , which will give a reading on 19 March 1944 in Michel Leiris friends with Simone de Beauvoir , Jean-Paul Sartre , Albert Camus , Louise Leiris , Pierre Reverdy and others. The play will finally established in July 1967. He also wrote two other literary works The Four Little Girls and The Burial of Count Orgaz.

An exceptional rating

On 10 November 1999 , at Sotheby's in New York, a portrait of Dora Maar from the collection of Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg, entitled Woman Seated in a Garden, oil on canvas dated 1938, sold for 49,502,500 an amount exceeding 45.8 million, it was at the time the second auction by the artist ever achieved , but not dethroned The Boy with a Pipe (1905), from the Greentree Foundation and earlier collections of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, sold 104,168,000 two years earlier, on 5 May at Sotheby's which is the first table in the story above the symbolic 100 million. In 2007 at auction, Woman with Mandolin sold for 27 million euros .

On 3 May 2010 , the Nu plate sculptor (1932) became a work of art the most expensive ever sold at auction being auctioned at Christie's in New York for 106.5 million ^, .

Sketches of the artist on paper, however, are considerably cheaper. Drawing the Bust of woman white blouse (1957) was sold for 40,000 euros in 2007. The estimate was 30 000 table in the museum and the city rewarded him when the title of honorary citizen.
The Belgian poet Louis-Philippe Kamman cites this story in his poem around a museum dedicated to the Museum of Fine Arts:
... Federer and people in a referendum
Sunday has decided to give eight million
for two beautiful Picasso worth the money
and they will cherish Sunday round ...

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Bibliography

Books

• Dictionary Bnzit , critical and documentary dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and writers of all ages and all countries, Vol. 10 editions Grnd, January 1999, 13 440 p. ( ISBN 2700030206 ), p. 873-880

• 1955:
  • Jaime Sabartes and Wilhelm Boeck, Picasso, Flammarion , Paris
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• 1964: Brassai , Conversations with Picasso, Gallimard , repr. 1997, 400 pages
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  • Cesareo Rodriguez-Aguilera, Picasso in Barcelona, translated from Spanish by Robert Marrast Circle Art Publishing, Paris ( ISBN 2702201032 )
  • Pierre Cabanne , Le Sicle de Picasso, 4 volumes, Volume I, "The Birth of Cubism" Volume II "The Era of metamorphoses" Volume III, "The War" Volume IV, "The Glory of Solitude" ; Denol, Paris
• 1977: Pierre Daix , The Life of painter Pablo Picasso, Paris, Editions du Seuil , 414 pages
• 1979: Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Cubism of Picasso, Catalogue raisonn of his paintings from 1907 to 1916, Ides and Kalends, 1979 and 2000, 378 pages ( ISBN 978-2825800942 )
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Catalogs

• Picasso Museum of Barcelona , Catalog, Editorial Escudo de Oro, ( ISBN 84-378-0925-8 )
• 1978: Christian Zervos , Catalogue raisonn of works by Pablo Picasso, Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art
• 1996: Picasso, Form und Graphik / Sammlung Ludwig Kln, VG Bild Kunst, Bonn, ( ISBN 3-930054-24-8 )

External Links

• Official site
• File: Pablo Picasso, Centre Pompidou
• Exhibition: Picasso Erotique

• Gateway to the History of Art
• Portal Painting
• Spain portal

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