Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish, lithograph, work featuring two figures, sculptor and subject, seated before sculpted head. Numbered 67/150 lower left. Signed in plate. From the Suite Vollard series. 

Overall: 31 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.

Sight: 24 1/3 x 18 in. 

#2543 . 

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatrical designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He was one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) and the anti-war painting “Guernica” (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During his twenties his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art. Picasso’s output, especially in his early career, is often periodized as the Blue Period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1904-1906), the African-influenced Period (1907-1909), Analytic Cubism (1909-1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912-1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso’s work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. Pablo Picasso died in Mougins, France from pulmonary edema and a heart attack, the morning after he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner.