Nature morte espagnole picasso biography

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the Spanish master’s death, we examine his momentous artistic legacy and the styles that defined his long and varied career – illustrated with lots offered at Christie’s

Pablo Picasso, 1950s. Photograph by André Villers. @ ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2023. Picasso’s works & likeness @ Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2023

Born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, on 25 October 1881, in Málaga, Spain, Picasso is one of history’s most influential artists. He devoted his life to art for nearly 80 years, producing more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, books, theatre sets and costumes, in a vast range of styles.

Each major period of Picasso’s art was seemingly defined by the events around him, from his personal tragedies and impassioned love affairs to the socio-political upheavals of Europe. As a result, Picasso’s body of art emerges as a timeline of his own experiences.

Here we explore the major styles that defined Picasso’s career — illustrated with works offered at Christie’s.

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Still Life

Picasso’s second exhibition in the French capital was held in April 1902 at the gallery owned by Berthe Weill, an art dealer who had an eye for discovering young talents and promoting their works. The first picture reproduced in the exhibition catalogue was a "Still Life" that could be identified as this oil painting in the museum collection. In his preface to the catalogue, Adrien Farge affirmed, «Sometimes, letting himself be carried away by colour, he offers us a luxurious still life».
The bright colours and thick vibrant brushstrokes that characterised the works Picasso hung at Vollard’s in June 1901 are repeated here, although this canvas also conveys his first reflections on the still lifes painted by Cézanne, whose works he had had occasion to behold at the ‘Centennale’ section of the Parisian Exposition Universelle of 1900 and during his visits to Vollard’s gallery. In order to highlight the volume and material substance of the objects depicted, Picasso used contrasting textures, shaping the jug, vase and fruit bowls with vibrant impastos and turning to subtle nuances of colour for the glass and the dish of oysters. By duplicating the angle of vision of the fruit bowl and the table surface he managed to achieve a sense of depth without a vani

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The people, places, and articles that counterfeit the rebel artist’s abiding legacy

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What were some attain Picasso’s inspirations?

His father

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