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Pablo Picasso

Born : 1881Died : 1973Documented citizenships : Spain

In the early years of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period is distinguished by a palette, an atmosphere and subjects dominated by melancholy blue, as exemplified by The Old Guitarist, dated from late 1903 to early 1904. The Art Institute of Chicago associates these works with Symbolism and highlights the role of colour and abstract form in the expression of emotion and psychology. The subsequent Rose Period depicts circus performers and harlequins; it also corresponds to a renewed interest in earlier and non-Western works.

Interest in ancient African, Oceanic and Iberian arts persisted and, according to the Art Institute, guided the translation of the human figure into the geometric language of Cubism. In autumn 1909, Head of a Woman (Fernande) marks, in the museum’s account, Picasso’s first major sculpture made in this style.

In 1913, the Art Institute presented works by Picasso in the International Exhibition of Modern Art, later known as the Armory Show; the museum indicates that this was the first presentation of his work by an art museum in the United States. Works by the artist held at the Art Institute include Mother and Child (1921), described as a painting inspired by classical art, and Red Armchair (1931), described as Surrealist. The collection also includes Maquette for Richard J. Daley Center Sculpture (1964), associated with a public sculpture that the museum counts among Chicago’s emblematic public works.

La rue des bois, dated 1908 and measuring 71 × 58 cm, is attributed to Picasso by the CulturaItalia catalogue, which associates it with the Museo del Novecento in Milan. Other entries in the Italian general catalogue list La loge (Le balcon) as a fragment of a painting, Testa di toro as a painting, and Le saltimbanque au repos and Portrait de Vollard II as prints.

This profile brings together identity references for Pablo Picasso and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

45 references are documented at Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, Dobiaschofsky, Kornfeld, Sotheby’s, Germann, Piguet, Lempertz, Genève Enchères. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.

Works recorded at auction

Kornfeld · Lot 93

Masked Love

Pen and brush in Indian ink on wove paper

Original catalogue wording

L’Amour masqué
Pen and brush in Indian ink on wove paper

Catalogue period : 2025-09-12

Published result : 170000 CHF

Hammer price, excluding fees

Estimate : CHF 200000

Pablo Picasso

Works recorded at auction

Masked Love

Young Woman Standing, Facing Forward, Arms Raised — Study for “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon”

"Famille balzacienne"

Dancer at rest

Picador and figures

Woman and child

Guitar and Fruit Bowl on a Square Table

Pipe, Bass bottle, die

Painter and model

Char et personnages

Étude pour La chèvre

Pierrot with a mask, 1917/18

Fruit dish, bottle and glass

Painter and model

Acrobat and young girl

Cubist still life

Standing woman and seated woman

Standing nude

Nude woman invoking the heavens

Tête D'Homme (LE 14 AOÛT 1969)

Portrait, Man with a Pipe, 1905

Reclining nude with crossed legs

The spring / Woman with a dog

The painter and his model

Homme nu couché

The Spanish woman before the mirror

Femme

Musketeer's head (recto) — Two women (verso)

Guitar and Fruit Bowl on a Pedestal Table

Study for “Panpipe Player”

Dancer at rest

The old model

Woman and dove

The Trojan Horse

Dove of peace with a branch

Standing nude, Fernande

The picador

Clown and horse

Croquis, 1903

Le Photographe et le Singe, 1965

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973),_"Sur la plage",

Icare

Homme à la guitare

La chute d'Icare

References excluded from statistics: attributions and special lots

The Mermaid

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