Top Ten Picasso Paintings

Guernica is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937, at his home on Rue des Grands Augustins, in Paris. The painting, now in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, was done with a palette of gray, black, and white, and is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history.

This painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was painted in 1907 and is the most famous example of cubism painting. In this painting, Picasso abandoned all known form and representation of traditional art.

The Old Guitarist was painted in 1903, just after the suicide death of Picasso's close friend, Casagemas. During this time, the artist was sympathetic to the plight of the downtrodden and painted many canvases depicting the miseries of the poor, the ill, and those cast out of society.

Girl Before Mirror was painted in March 1932. It was produced in the style Picasso was using at the time and evoked an image of Vanity such as had been utilized in art in earlier eras, though Picasso shifts the emphasis and creates a very different view of the image.

Le Rêve was purchased for $7,000 in 1941 by Victor and Sally Ganz of New York City. This purchase began their 50-year collection of works by just five artists: Picasso, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Eva Hesse.

The Weeping Woman series is regarded as a thematic continuation of the tragedy depicted in Picasso's epic painting Guernica. In focusing on the image of a woman crying, the artist was no longer painting the effects of the Spanish Civil War directly, but rather referring to a singular universal image of suffering.

Dora Maar au Chat by Pablo Picasso was painted in 1941 during the Second World War, during a difficult period as France was, at that time, occupied by Nazi Germany. The painting depicts Dora Maar, Picasso’s lover, sitting in a chair and there is a small cat sitting on her shoulders.

In purely economic terms Picasso's painting Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, 1932, is extraordinary for its value, having sold at auction for $106.5 million in 2010, making it one of the most expensive works ever sold at auction.

– Pablo Picasso Picasso painted this portrait of a Parisian boy wearing a wreath of flowers and holding a pipe in 1905, at the age of 25, during his so-called Rose period. Although the style of the present painting is not instantly associated with Pablo Picasso, most commonly linked to his early adaptations to Cubism, Garçon a la Pipe, is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece depicting adolescent beauty.

Picasso's 1903 Blue Period masterpiece La Vie is one such rarity. Pablo Picasso never intended for the world to have a clear understanding of the painting "La Vie", now one of the treasured possessions of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Saltimbanques (The Family of Saltimbanques), 1905 Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org This picture is usually seen as the dominant composition of Picasso's Rose Period - the conclusion of developing style, colouring and themes to date.

Seated Woman (Marie-Therese),1937 by Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org This joyful work was painted at the start of an amazingly prolific year, in which Picasso produced many powerful creations, including Guernica (1937).

Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1905 by Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org In the autumn of 1905, on his return to Paris from Gosol, Picasso at last succeeded in completing his adamantine Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which he had begun not long after his first meeting with the American writer.

- Pablo Picasso. His style of painting was not unique all the time, but it was at times unique compared to others. e.g cubism, or Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 that had a unique style and impact on the art world.

Girl with Mandolin, 1910 by Pablo Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org By the winter of 1909/10 Picasso's pictorial language had already become increasingly hard to decipher.

Ma jolie (My pretty girl) was the refrain of a popular song performed at a Parisian music hall Picasso frequented. The artist suggests this musical association by situating a treble clef and music staff near the bold, stenciled letters.

Artwork page for ‘The Three Dancers’, Pablo Picasso, 1925 on display at Tate Modern. The jagged forms of Three Dancers convey an explosion of energy. The image is laden with Picasso’s personal recollections of a triangular affair, which resulted in the heart-broken suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas.

Sylvette is the title of the portrait of a young woman with the pony tail painted by Pablo Picasso. The model for the painting was (Lydia) Sylvette David, also known by her married name Lydia Corbett, a French woman who worked in a pottery studio near Picasso's studio in Vallauris, in the summer of 1953.

The paintings considered as a blue period masterpiece. Les Noces de Pierrette (translated as 'The Marriage of Pierrete') was painted in 1905, a time when Picasso faced poverty early in his career. In this painting, Picasso uses many shades of blue. The blues help express the somber mood of the painting.

Femme aux Bras Croisés, 1902 by Picasso. Femme aux Bras Croisés, 1902 depicts a woman with her arms folded staring into nothingness. She is the focal point of the image and is rather simply dressed. Her negative body language of folded arms immediately closes her off from analysis rather cleverly.

Massacre in Korea is a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean War. It depicts the 1950 Sinchon Massacre, an act of mass killing carried out by North Koreans, South Koreans, and American forces in the town of Sinchon located in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea.

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard by Picasso (1910) (Analysis) September 4, 2016 Paintings of Cubists dimonberg Ambroise Vollard was a pretty well-known person among most of the European artists of the early 20th century.

Like the earlier Three Women at the Spring (1921) these male figures appear to have been carved like Classical Homeric statues from the hunks of stone behind them and then imbued with life, possibly by the music from the magical pan pipes.

Boy Leading a Horse, 1906 by Pablo Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org Boy Leading a Horse is yet another masterpiece critics praise without trying to explain.

How, then, do we reconcile the following quotation from Picasso himself: “The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting…Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression.

Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto is a study of a young Spanish artist sitting in a bar, shrouded in tobacco smoke from a pipe, with a glass of absinthe in front of him. The young man, Fernández de Soto, was Picasso's friend and was usually referred to as an "amusing wastrel", as he enjoyed drinking and partying.

The Actor (L'acteur) is a 1904 painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art.

Prophetically, Yo Picasso is the first of Picasso's self-portraits to make dramatic use of the artist's powerful eyes. This, perhaps, leads to the psychological depth explored in his two other 1901 self-portraits.

Artwork page for ‘Nude in a Black Armchair’, Pablo Picasso, 1932 on display at Tate Modern.

Child with a Dove, 1901 by Pablo Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org Child with a Dove is one of Picasso's earliest works: he was twenty-one, or even less, but his own style is already apparent.

The subject of this portrait is Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884 - 1979), a German-born art dealer, writer, and publisher. Kahnweiler opened an art gallery in Paris in 1907and in 1908 began representing Pablo Picasso, whom he introduced to Georges Braque.

The fact that most of Pablo Picasso's works of the Blue Period were painted in Barcelona accounts for the resemblance of many of his models to figures by El Greco. His affinity with this master of Spanish Mannerism is apparent in the composition of Celestina, 1903, which dates from the beginning of the Blue Period.

Woman with Pears,1909 by Pablo Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org his is one of several portraits Picasso painted of his companion, Fernande Olivier, during the summer of 1909, a period that the couple spent in Picasso's native Spain.

Picasso's The Blue Room (detail), painted in 1901. Photograph: AP It's a mystery that is fuelling new research about the 1901 painting created early in Picasso's career while he was working in Paris at the start of his distinctive blue period of melancholy subjects.

List of famous Pablo Picasso paintings, listed alphabetically with pictures of the art when available. A celebrated artist around the world, Pablo Picasso has created some of the most historic paintings of all time.

Woman in Hat and Fur Collarwas painted in Paris in 1937, and is one of the numerous portraits Picasso did of Marie-Thérèse Walter, his lover between 1927 and 1935, approximately, and the mother of his daughter Maya.

As daughter Maya plays with her doll, adoring father Picasso plays with his latest artistic processing of space and colour. The plastic phase of figurative distortion is continued, while the characteristics of the face are pushed and remoulded, as though constructed from modelling clay.

Les Femmes d'Alger ("Women of Algiers") is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish cubist artist Pablo Picasso. The series, created in 1954–1955, was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement).

Three Women at the Spring, 1921 by Pablo Picasso Courtesy of www.PabloPicasso.org This wonderful picture's primitive, early Mediterranean feel is another vibrant example of Picasso's monumental neo-Classical figures.

In 1955, when Picasso's first wife Olga Koklova died, he was free to marry. They married in Vallauris on 2 March 1961. Jacqueline with Flowers, 1954 celebrates the entry of Picasso's new companion, Jacqueline Roque, into his painting.

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Science and Charity is one of the major works from Picasso’s early years of training. At just 15, Picasso felt mature enough to take on large ambitious compositions as the culmination of his academic studies in Barcelona School of Fine Arts that were led by his father Jose Ruiz Picasso, who was the model for the doctor in this painting.

The Guggenheim Museum conducted research and engaged in a conservation treatment of Picasso’s Woman Ironing. The Guggenheim Museum conducted research and engaged in a conservation treatment of Picasso’s Woman Ironing.

Minotauromachy, 1935 by Pablo Picasso. Minotauromachy presents a provocative scene, full of symbolic content, is difficult but not impossible to interpret. Several actions take place in a narrow, confined space.

Les pigeon aux petit pois (Pigeons with peas) is a 1911 painting by Pablo Picasso. It was one of five paintings stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on 20 May 2010, which together are worth about €100 million ($123 million).

In his Blue Period paintings, Picasso continually attempted to exorcise the pain and guilt he experienced as a result of the death of Carles Casagemas; this struggle with mortality, human suffering, and pain was a constant theme throughout the continuing decades of Picasso's art.

Pablo Picasso, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro, summer 1909, oil on canvas, 24-1/8 x 20-1/8″ (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, fractional and promised gift) Smarthistory images for teaching and learning: More Smarthistory images…

Pablo Picasso The Charnel House Paris, 1944-45 Not on view The Charnel House was Picasso’s most overtly political painting since Guernica of 1937 (now in the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).

One living artist that Picasso always had in his sights was Matisse. Given the subject of Painter and Model this is no surprise, and he may have had one particular Matisses in mind, the monumental Goldfish and Palette 1915.

Seated Bather was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1930. The painting has a surreal-esque and very unnerving nature. Picasso's use of colors and contrast in his work display his mood. Study of this painting will show the way he connected cubism with the surrealist movement.

Two Nudes, which was painted in the autumn-winter of 1906, is the culmination of a great series of drawings and paintings on the theme of a pair of women which had begun to fascinate Picasso during his trip to Gosol earlier in the year.