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From 1898 he signed his works as "Pablo Ruiz Picasso", then as "Pablo R. Picasso" until 1901. The change does not seem to imply a rejection of the father figure. Rather, he wanted to distinguish himself from others; initiated by his Catalan friends who habitually called him by his maternal surname, much less current than the paternal Ruiz. [30]
Poor People by the Sea (Des pauvres au bord de la mer), also known as The Tragedy, is an oil on panel painting made in 1903 by Pablo Picasso. It is currently in Washington, DC, in the National Gallery of Art .
The impact of the Second World War resulted in many of Picasso's artworks becoming more political, and he depicted the effects of the occupation in dark, grey hues. The Charnel House is considered to be Picasso's most political painting since he painted Guernica in 1937. It was inspired by a documentary about a Spanish Republican family who ...
"As an answer to his confrontation with these difficulties, Picasso using further elements taken from the tradition of Christian art, for example the last supper, the resurrection, the veiled hands, presents himself both as Creator of a new art and its Messiah, who has come to comfort the suffering and redeem the world as a new Saviour, as a ...
Lists of Picasso artworks include: List of Picasso artworks 1889–1900; List of Picasso artworks 1901–1910; List of Picasso artworks 1911–1920; List of Picasso artworks 1921–1930; List of Picasso artworks 1931–1940; List of Picasso artworks 1941–1950; List of Picasso artworks 1951–1960; List of Picasso artworks 1961–1970
On Wednesday, Pablo Picasso's "Femme à la montre" sold for $139 million at Sotheby's auction house. It is the second highest price achieved by the artist (the first being Les Femmes d'Alger which ...
The Chicago Picasso, 1967 In 1964, Pablo Picasso approved the construction of one of his sculptures, depicting his wife Jacqueline, to be erected in Kristinehamn (Sweden) at Strandudden by lake Vänern. Carl Nesjar was commissioned to carry out the construction. The Picasso sculpture in Kristinehamn Sweden was inaugurated in 1965, is 15 meters high, and is the largest Picasso sculpture in the ...
In his book Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory, Peter Read notes that preparatory drawings for the work revealed that the large jester was actually a representation of El Tio Pepe Don José, the head of a circus troupe. He continues by opining that the figures in the painting are allegorical and represent Picasso and his social ...