Pablo Picasso
Woman with hairnet
1949
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
Pablo Picasso moved through nearly every major problem of twentieth-century European art while repeatedly changing the terms of the conversation. After early academic training in Spain, he developed the Blue and Rose periods in Paris, then worked with Georges Braque to fracture Renaissance perspective into Cubism. He continued to reinvent his language through collage, neoclassical figuration, Surrealist distortion, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics. His career also became a model of the modern artist as a public cultural figure, with an enormous studio output and a life that is inseparable from the history of modernism.
Painting; sculpture; drawing; printmaking; ceramics; collage
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
Did Picasso Paint This in a Day? | TateShots
Major Works
- 1907Les Demoiselles d'Avignon →Oil on canvasMoMA
- 1937Guernica →Oil on canvasMuseo Reina Sofía
- 1903–1904The Old Guitarist →Oil on panelArt Institute of Chicago
- 1932Girl before a Mirror →Oil on canvasMoMA
- 1921Three Musicians →Oil on canvasMoMA
- 1903La Vie →Oil on canvasCleveland Museum of Art
- 1911–1912Ma Jolie →Oil on canvasMoMA
- 1937The Weeping Woman →Oil on canvasTate
- 1905–1906Gertrude Stein →Oil on canvasThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1942Bull's Head →Bicycle seat and handlebarsMusée Picasso Paris
Museums & Public Collections
Related Artists
Selected Exhibitions
- 1907–14 Cubist breakthrough in ParisMajor exhibition / biennial / historical milestonegroup
- 1937 Spanish Pavilion, Paris International ExpositionMajor exhibition / biennial / historical milestonegroup
- 1939 Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, MoMAMajor exhibition / biennial / historical milestonegroup
- major posthumous surveys worldwideMajor exhibition / biennial / historical milestonegroup
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo