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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 ...
The previous year, Picasso had arrived in Paris from Barcelona to settle there. During this time, Picasso was living in poverty in a dilapidated artist building at 13 rue Ravignan, known as Le Bateau-Lavoir. Gertrude and her brother Leo Stein were art collectors and became friends with Picasso later in 1905. The siblings acquired three Rose ...
Woman Ironing (French: La repasseuse) [1] is a 1904 oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was completed during the artist's Blue Period (1901—1904). This evocative image, painted in neutral tones of blue and gray, depicts an emaciated woman with hollowed eyes, sunken cheeks, and bent form, as she presses down on an iron with all her will.
Picasso, who rarely allowed strangers into his studio to watch him work, admitted influential visitors to observe his progress on Guernica, believing that the publicity would help the antifascist cause. [1] As his work on the mural progressed, Picasso explained: "The Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom.
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 Fall of Icarus (originally titled The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil or simply The UNESCO painting [1]) is a 1958 mural by Pablo Picasso. Made of 40 painted mahogany tiles covering 90m 2, it is the artist's largest work. It was commissioned by UNESCO for the organisation's main foyer in Paris and was unveiled on 29 March ...
Claude Ruiz-Picasso, the younger son of Pablo Picasso, has died in Switzerland at age 76.
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.