Pablo Picasso

name: Minotaure aveugle Guide por une petite Fille aux Fleurs medium: Etching, Drypoint and Aquatint edition: 50 year: 1934 signed: Lower Right in Pencil size: 15 1/4" x 19 3/4" frame:N/A reference:Bloch 222 asking price:Price on Request.
name: Taureau et Cheveaux dans l’Arene medium: Etching edition: 260 year: signed: Yes size: 13 ½ X 17 ½ in. frame:31 X 35 ½ reference: asking price:$22,000
name: Garcon Pensif Veillant Une Dormeuse a la Lumiere D'une Chand medium: Etching on Montval Paper edition: 260 year: 1934 signed: Lower Right in Pencil size: 13 1/4" x 17 2/3" frame:N/A reference:Bloch 226 asking price:Price on Request.
name: Trois Femmes Nues et une Coupe d'Anemones medium: Etching on Montval paper edition: 50 year: 1933 signed: Lower Right in Pencil size: 14 3/8" x 11 3/4" frame:27 1/4" x 23 1/2" reference:Bloch 176 asking price:Price on Request
name: Untitled (Self Portrait) medium: Drawing with Marker edition: Original year: 1966 signed: Authenticated by the Estate size: 11" x 8.5" frame:N/A reference:N/A asking price:Price on Request. Proceeds benefit the Timmy Foundation.
name: Sculptures, Modeles et Sculpture medium: Etching on Montval Paper edition: 50 year: 1933 signed: Lower Right size: 15 1/8" x 19 7/8" frame:N/A reference:Bloch 149 asking price:Sold
name: La Bonne Dans L'Atelier du Sculpture medium: Etching on Montval Paper edition: 50 year: 1933 signed: Lower Right size: 19 5/8" x 15 1/4" frame:N/A reference:Bloch 184 asking price:Price on Request
name: Minotaure aveugle guide dans la Nuit par une Petite Fille... medium: Etching on Montval paper edition: 50 year: 1934 signed: Lower Right size: 9 3/8" x 11 3/4" frame: reference:Bloch 223 asking price:Price on Request

Biography

Perhaps the best known and most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is a legend whose name has become synonymous with avant-garde artistry and sheet creative genius. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, on October 25, 1881. His father, an art school instructor who immediately recognized his son’s talent, encouraged Picasso to study at La Lonja’s School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and later at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid. Bored with the restraints of academics, he dropped out and pursued his own course of artistic development, studying the works of Goya, van Gogh, Cezanne, and others. At 18, he put together his first solo exhibition. In October 1900, Picasso moved to Paris, where dealers soon expressed interest in his work, and he was able, for the first time, to earn a living from selling his pieces.

Picasso continually reinvented his art, adopting and pioneering new styles and techniques throughout his lifetime. Perhaps the most famous phase in his career began around 1908, when he and Georges Braque revolutionized the art world by creating a movement known as Cubism. The goal of Cubism was to show objects not as they appear in a particular time or place, but rather as they are perceived and understood by the intellect. The artist’s responsibility was no longer simply to copy nature or mirror reality, but instead to create a new reality. Cubist works created new relationships between artist and viewer, forcing the viewer to take an active role in creating the picture by picking out imagery and assembling it like pieces of a puzzle.

Picasso continued to create prolifically throughout his long life, working simultaneously in various styles of expression as well as various media. Although best known for his paintings, Picasso also worked extensively in sculpture, ceramics, etchings, and lithography. For him, art was closely related to life, and he often referred to his work as a form of diary. Consequently, much of his art is heavily influenced by the man he was – his Spanish heritage, his infamous relationships with women, and his passionate and rebellious approach to the world around him. Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at the age of ninety-one.