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[Spanish Cubist Painter and Sculptor, 1881-1973]
| • Also known as: | Pablo Ruiz y Picasso | | • Relationships: | Painter Françoise Gilot lived with Picasso for ten years and bore him two children: Claude and Paloma Picasso.
Picasso fathered two other children - Paulo (with Olga Koklova) and Maya (with Marie-Thérèse Walter).
Picasso also had a long affair with Dora Maar.
Founded the Cubist movement in collaboration with Georges Braque. | | • Browse all: Spanish artists / sculptors |
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| We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. | | - Pablo Picasso |
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Original works by Pablo Picasso available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
Many works by Pablo Picasso online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
4 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Pablo Picasso
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
14 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
38 works by Picasso
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Pablo Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
4 works by Pablo Picasso online
Pablo Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Scream, 1927
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Several works online
Musée National Picasso, Paris (in French) 
Musée National Picasso La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France (in French)
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
55 works by Pablo Picasso online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Conserving a Modern Masterpiece
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Sculptor with his Model, his Sculpture and a Bowl of Anenomes (In the "Etching" section)
Bull, various states (In the "Lithograph" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
8 works online
Pablo Picasso at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
12 works by Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
In-depth study of The Tragedy, 1903
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Only 3 works online
Pablo Picasso at the National Gallery, London, UK
Child with a Dove
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
The Poet, 1911
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
4 works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc, 1914
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
A cup
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Portrait of Fernande Olivier
Woman's Head (Tête de femme)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
First Steps
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)
Grande natura morta, 1917
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
7 works online
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Woman in a Peplos
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Glass of Absinthe (Le Verre d'absinthe)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Head of a Woman (Fernande Olivier), sculpture
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Women and Child by the Sea, drawing
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
La Sieste (Les Moissonneurs), 1919
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
Images from a 2006 exhibition
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
The Dance (La danse), 1933
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Nude in a rocking chair, 1956
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
10 prints online
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
La Soupe, oil on canvas, ca.1902
Head of a Woman (Fernande), bronze sculpture, ca.1909
Nu aux mains serrees, gouache on canvas, ca.1905-06
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
9 works online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Illustration from Sable Mouvant
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) NEW!
3 works by the artist
Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish) NEW!
Céret Museum of Modern Art, France (in French) NEW!
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, East Sussex, England
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Tête de femme, 1933
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
18 works
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harlequin with Violin, 1918
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
La Vie, ca.1903, from Picasso's Blue Period
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Still Life with Compote and Glass, 1914-15
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Un verre sur une table (A Glass on a Table)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire NEW!
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Dream and Lie of Franco, 1937
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Pierrot et Arlequin
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pierrot
Fundación Picasso / Museo Casa Natal, Malaga, Spain
No art online that I can find
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Vrouw met mosterdpot, 1909-10
Glasgow Museums, Scotland NEW!
The Flower Seller
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Haugesund Museum of Fine Art, Norway (mostly in Norwegian)
Bathsheba
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Guitar on a Table
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Four Figures, ink drawing, 1926
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Boy Holding a Blue Vase, 1905
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 paintings online
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
415 results - click on "Groupe suivant" to see page forward through search results
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
2 works online
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland NEW!
Alphabetically under "P"
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Pablo Picasso in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Madison Museum of Fine Art, Inc., Georgia
Portrait of Frederic Joliot-Curie lithograph
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
La Celestina, 1904
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
A los toros II, lithograph, 1961
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
La Bouteille de Suze (Bottle of Suze), 1912
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW!
The Cock of the Liberation
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Femme Couchee Lisant (Reclining Woman Reading), 1960
Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula
Untitled (Matador), print
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
(Keep clicking the "right" arrow for a sculpture and a painting by Picasso)
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Femme assise à l'écharpe
Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille, France (in French)
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (in French) NEW!
Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)
Femme Lisant, 1920
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Embrace, 1971
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Enfant assis, 1921
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Nu à mi-corps, 1923
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Baigneuse, 1928
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Au cirque: Ecuyère, clown et Pierrot, 1968
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Jeune garçon rêvant: Les femmes!, 1968
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Portrait of Max Jacob, 1907
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
3 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
Femme assise sur la plage
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
56 works by Picasso
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Provenance Research
3 works
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Pientre Devant Son Chevalet
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
The Bather, 1922
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, 1901
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian)
Several works on this and subsequent pages
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
3 works by Picasso on this page
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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10 works by Pablo Picasso online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Portrait of Thérèse Walter
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Head of a Woman, 1909
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
The Dove, 1949
Portland Museum of Art, Maine NEW!
Click thumbnail #8
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
The Girl On A Ball, 1905
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia NEW!
La Belle Hollandaise, 1905
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Les Trois Amis, etching
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid
Information about a 2006 exhibition. See a virtual walkthrough of the show here.
Richmond Art Museum, Indiana
Pour Robi
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Guitare et compotier, 1920
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
7 works online
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "P"
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Woman with a Pitcher, 1919
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Table, Guitar, and Bottle (La Table), 1919-20
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Scroll down for 3 prints by Kollwitz
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Three Women, rhythmic version, 1908
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
3 artworks online
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Seated Woman with Fish Hat, 1942
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2004-2005 exhibition
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
5 works
Telefónica Foundation Collections, Madrid
5 works
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
The Coe College Permanent Collection of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Vallauris Exposition, woodblock print, 1952
The Hepworth Wakefield, England NEW!
The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
4 Gats Menu card: Plat del Dia, ca.1900
The Menil Collection, Texas
Skull and Pitcher, 1945
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece), 1927-31
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Femme en Vert, 1909
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Jester on Horseback, 1905
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Portrait de Femme a la Fraise a et au Chapeau
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Musketier und Amor, 1969
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Die Familie Soler, 1903
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Coiffure, 1923
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Poverty
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Portrait of Fernande Olivier, drypoint, 1906
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Commercial Galleries:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from past sales
Scroll down to the highlights from the Spring 2005 sale
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 386
Pictures from Image Archives:
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Woman with Yellow Hair
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Sculptural Face
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Arlequin assis (Seated Harlequin), 1923
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Three Musicians (Musiciens aux masques), 1921
Pablo Picasso at CGFA
Pablo Picasso at Insecula
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Several unidentified paintings from a 2001 exhibition
Spain Ministry of Education and Science Imagebank (in Spanish)
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Arterotismo (contains nudity)
Collection of Picasso's erotic works
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
ImageNETion
Saltimbanques
Malek Gallery
(Click on the figure in the center of the page to go to a gallery of 9 paintings)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
3 works documented
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
The Athenaeum
21 works online
The Halter Collection
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites About the Artist:
On-Line Picasso Project
Extensive biography and overview of the artist's work, with excellent reproductions. Highly recommended.
Picasso Érotique versus Picasso Classique (in French)
Succession Picasso Official Web Site
Other Web Sites:
Art of the First World War
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Picasso: Tradition and Avant-garde at Museo del Prado (7 works online)
Artdreamguide (in Italian)
Biographical information and a guide to the museums owning important collections of the artist's work.
Collection New York (a private collector who has put some of his or her collection online)
Tête de femme (Dora Maar)
Columbia University Visual Media Center
Flash-based presentation about Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
FBI Art Theft Program
Dora Maar, 1938, painting stolen from a yacht in Antibes in 1999
FBI Art Theft Program
Dance, 1956, stolen from the Museu Chacara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro
Kilidavid
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail NEW!
3 works online when last checked
PBS
The story behind Guernica
Rocbo Culture (in French)
Geometric analysis of 2 works by Picasso
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Harlequin with Guitar, drawing, 1916
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Jester, crayon on paper
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Guernica and its influence on other artists
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pablo Picasso
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Apollo Magazine NEW!
Article: "Silver compotiers by Picasso"
Art + Auction Magazine NEW!
Tête de femme (Dora Maar), painting, 1938
Art + Auction Magazine NEW!
Tête de femme (Dora Maar), sculpture
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Jeune Fille assise, pencil drawing, 1921
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Two Men and a Woman, 5.11.70, 1970
Artnet Magazine
Three Musicians, 1921
Artnet Magazine
Postcard to Jean Cocteau, 1919
Three Bathers, Juan-les-Pins, 1920
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
International Herald Tribune
"Dora Maar's Picassos: A Trek Through Classicism and Caricature," article by Souren Melikian
The Art Bulletin
New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
The Art Newspaper
Picasso and portraiture: a long and fruitful relationship
The Atlantic Monthly
Several articles on Picasso, taken from the magazine's archives
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Weeping Woman, 1937
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
The Three Dancers, 1925
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Portrait of Félix Pissarro
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: MoMA Extravaganza of Matisse-Picasso A Great Exhibition
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Everybody Loves Picasso, Even Critics and Nazis
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Peter Halley on Picasso's Still Life on a Pedestal Table, 1931
Time Magazine
"The Painter as Proteus", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Picasso: The Last Picture Show", 1984 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Show of Shows: Picasso, modernism's father, comes home to MOMA", 1980 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Adam and Eve of Modernism", 1989 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
1988 review by Robert Hughes of the book 'Picasso: Creator And Destroyer'
Time Magazine
"Anatomy of a Minotaur", 1971 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"To say that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace...", 1998 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Picasso's Worst", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
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