Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist OOC for Auction at 888 Auctions on May 23, 2019

Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist OOC Dated 3.4.61 – May 23, 2019

Oil on canvas, stretched. Featuring a cubist portrait of a woman. Signed Picasso and inscribed 3.4361 on the upper right corner. Attributed to Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish). 69 x 57 cm (27.16 x 22.44 inches). PROVENANCE: Private Canadian collection

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His ingenious use of form, color, and perspective profoundly impacted later generations of painters.  Such artists included Willem de Kooning and David Hockney. “There are artists who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun,” he once said.

Born October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso’s name was quite epic.  His name is more a sentence, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. His prodigious talent was cultivated early on by his father the painter Jose Ruíz Blasco. Picasso then attended the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, Barcelona shortly before settling in Paris in 1904.

Immersed in the avant-garde circles of Gertrude Stein, he rapidly transitioned from Neo-Impressionism through the Blue Period and Rose Period, before reaching a culmination in his masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). Constantly in search of pictorial solutions and in dialogue with his friend Georges Braque, Picasso melded forms he saw in African sculpture with the multiple perspectives he gleaned from Paul Cézanne, to produce Cubism.

Not limited to painting, the artist also expressed himself through collage, sculpture, and ceramics. He was deeply affected by the ongoing Spanish Civil War. As a result, Picasso created what is arguably his most overtly political work Guernica (1937), a mural-sized painting depicting carnage with jagged shapes and contrasting grayscale. The artist was prolific up until his death on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.

Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.  Others include institutions devoted solely to his life work, such as the Museo Picasso Málaga, the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, and the Musée National Picasso in Paris.

Auction Overview

Richmond Hill, ON – 459 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ May 23th auction featuring the finest in MODERN ART, PAINTINGS & ASIAN ANTIQUES 2019-05-23. Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.

Visit the auction at 888 Auctions during the public viewing period:

Monday, May 20: 10AM-5PM
Tuesday, May 21: 10AM-5PM
Wednesday, May 22: 10AM-5PM
Thursday, May 23: 10AM-1PM