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Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
La Lecture de la Lettre (English: Reading the Letter) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he painted c. 1921, during his transition from Cubism to Neoclassicism, [1] very close to the time of the birth of his son, Paulo.
Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza.It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part, published in 1605, of the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote.
[6] Picasso was the focus of Apollinaire's first important works of art criticism—his 1905 pieces on Picasso also provided the artist with his earliest major coverage in the French press [7] —and Picasso highly treasured Apollinaire's gift of the original manuscript of his pornographic novel Les Onze Mille Verges, published in 1907. [8]
The Old Guitarist is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created in late 1903 and early 1904.It depicts an elderly musician, a haggard man with threadbare clothing, who is hunched over his guitar while playing in the streets of Barcelona, Spain.
This work was painted at the crux of Picasso's classical period from 1919 to 1929, in which he was greatly intrigued by classical art. At the time that he had painted The Pipes of Pan, Picasso was traveling extensively in Italy, and consequently drew inspiration for this painting in the Greco-Roman art he found there. [3]
At this time, Picasso was attracted to André Breton's Surrealism movement. In 1926 the painting appeared in Breton's work Le surréalisme et la peinture (Surrealism and Painting). Others link The Three Dancers to Picasso's failing marriage to Khokhlova. Its caption at the Tate Gallery gives some insight into the background of the painting:
Les Noces de Pierrette (English: The Marriage of Pierrette) is a 1905 painting by the Spanish artist and sculptor Pablo Picasso.While belonging chronologically to Picasso's Rose Period, it is artistically characteristic of the Blue Period, when the artist faced poverty and depression following the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas in 1901.