Pablo Picasso - Resources for Art Lovers

Pablo Picasso - official website

Pablo Picasso : official web site

Pablo Picasso official web site. His life, biography, paintings, sculptures and studios. On line requests for the use of Picasso's works, name and image. Selection of books, exhibitions and museums.

Picasso : his life

Pablo Picasso official web site. His genealogy and heirs

Picasso : questions of rights

Pablo Picasso official web site. Explanation of "The Succession Picasso" and all rights relating to Picasso's heirs and his estate and administration of same.

picasso : SEEING LEARNING

Pablo Picasso official web site - listing of all current exhibitions

Guardian - Web sights: Fit for Picasso

The artist would surely approve of this most comprehensive and extensive website devoted entirely to him.

Websites about Picasso

On-line Picasso Project Homepage

On-line Picasso Project - this is a simplay n amazing site and provides a biography and a comprehensive illustrated catelogue of his works in the form of a timeline. Only inspection of a resource like this makes you realise just how prolific Picasso was as an artist.

The creator and Director of the project is Dr. Enrique Mallen, Professor & Picasso Specialist, Sam Houston State University & Texas A&M University. A number of other people collaborated on the project and are also listed

Pablo Picasso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Pablo Picasso page on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pablo Picasso - Wikiquote

The Pablo Picasso page on Wikiquote - providing quotations by Picasso. These should indicate whether they are sourced or unsourced.

Pablo Picasso - Wikimedia Commons

Images relating to Pablo Picasso From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

Note that works by this artist are not in the public domain. They are protected by international copyright laws at least until 70 years after his/her death.

Pablo Picasso - The Most Famous Artist of the 20th Century - The Art History Archive

An overview of Picasso's life and work by period - with images.

The Artchive - Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

The site considers the different periods of Picasso's work

Famous Artists Gallery: Pablo Picasso

A painting by Pablo Picasso: Sleeping Peasants - 1919

Pablo Picasso: Founder Of Cubism, Spanish Painter, Sculptor: Biography, Paintings: Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, Guernica

Pablo Picasso: Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Founder of Cubism: Paintings, Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, Guernica: Biography

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude. His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey a myriad of intellectual, political, social, and amorous messages. His creative styles transcend realism and abstraction, Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism.

Picasso in Art Galleries and Museums

Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain

Picasso Museum in Barcelona

Musee national Picasso Paris (Pablo Picasso museum)

This is the website of the official National Picasson Museum in Paris - which I have visited and very much recommend to anybody visiting Paris. The very extensive collection of his work is NOT reflected in this website but it does provide details (in French) of address and how to visit the museum.

MUSEUM NOW CLOSED FOR MAJOR RENOVATIONS AND EXPANSION UNTIL 2012

Museo Picasso Málaga

Picasso Museum in Malaga, Spain

Musee Picasso

Picasso Museum in Antibes

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Timeline for Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - Picasso Exhibition 15 December 2007 - 30 March 2008

the Museum Ludwig in Cologne is renowned for its huge holdings of works by Pablo Picasso....a major Picasso retrospective, including paintings, drawings, ceramics and photographs, will come to The Hague.

National Gallery of Art, Washington - works by Pablo Picasso

Artist Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Musee national Picasso La Guerre et la Paix - Vallauris

Site officiel du musee national Picasso La Guerre et la Paix de Vallauris. Presentation de la chapelle de Vallauris et de l'oeuvre, La Guerre et la Paix, qui la d%uFFFDcore. Informations pratiques et programme des activit%uFFFDs culturelles...

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Slideshow

Works by Pablo Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum, New York

British Museum - Pablo Picasso, Seated nude and head of a woman, a preparatory study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, bodycolour an

This study by Picasso (1881-1973), probably executed in the winter of 1906-7, was one of many leading up to his famous painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Museum of Modern Art, New York). The composition as a whole was conceived as a brothel scene with the more explicit title of Le Bordel d'Avignon

Picasso and Exhibitions

Exhibitions of Picasso's work or about Picasso

The Art Newspaper's world exhibitions guide - exhibitions involving Picasso

The link is a seach facility so information about exhibitions should remain current.

MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 1996 | Picasso and Portraiture

This first comprehensive survey of the portrait work of Pablo Picasso featured more than 130 paintings and 100 drawings and prints. The exhibition was organized by William Rubin, Director Emeritus, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris.

MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2008 | Focus: Picasso Sculpture

Focus: Picasso Sculpture
July 3-November 3, 2008
Pablo Picasso is perhaps best known for his paintings, but his sculptures are among the most radical, thought-changing artworks of the modern period. While the artist's two-dimensional work was frequently exhibited during his lifetime, the first comprehensive exhibition of Picasso's sculpture was mounted in 1966, when the artist was eighty-five years old. This installation provides a broad overview of the artist's career as a creator of three-dimensional objects through selections from The Museum of Modern Art's collection.

Picasso - Delacroix | Louvre Museum

Coinciding with the major exhibition "Picasso and his Masters" held at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, the Louvre presents around 20 painted and graphic variations on Delacroix's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834), executed by Picasso in 1954-55.

Musée d'Orsay: Picasso / Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Throughout his career, Picasso went back to Cranach, Poussin, Velasquez, Rembrandt, David, Delacroix and Courbet. But his experiment with Manet's painting was, without doubt, the most profound and the most complex he ever undertook.

ARTINFO Artists - Pablo Picasso

Galleries and current and upcoming exhibitions

NG London/Future Exhibitions: Picasso: Challenging the Past

25 February - 7 June 2009

Picasso, the greatest artist of the 20th century, pitted himself against the Old Masters in a life-long artistic dialogue. "Picasso: Challenging the Past" will explore the ways he took up the artistic concerns of these painters and made audacious paintings of his own.

Picasso v Old Masters at The National Gallery

Video tour with Times Chief Art Critic, Rachel Campbell Johnston round the new Picasso, Changing The Past exhibition at the National Gallery in London, UK.

Picasso: Challenging the Past, National Gallery, London WC2 - Times Online

This show hits you straight in the face like the force of an explosion. Here is a talent as savagely destructive as it is creative, as ruthlessly mocking as it is admiring, as vulgarly garish as it is susceptible.

It is this ferociously competitive talent that is explored in a landmark show that brings a brash Modernist into the National Gallery's hallowed halls of high culture.

Finnish National Gallery - Picasso

In autumn 2009, Ateneum Art Museum will open a unique, extensive exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). All phases of the artist's production are comprehensively presented in this exhibition featuring some two hundred works, all of them coming to Ateneum from the collections of the Musée National Picasso in Paris. Before arriving at Ateneum, these collections have been on view e.g. at the Reina Sofia in Madrid and the National Art Centre in Tokyo. After Ateneum, this exhibition will be seen in e.g. Hamburg. Helsinki is the only Scandinavian city hosting this Picasso exhibition. The exhibition seen at Ateneum will be curated by Anne Baldassari, Director of the Musée National Picasso in Paris.

Picasso and Provence

A special page to discover the art of Picasso in Provence Cote d'Azur with articles and special events -

Tate Liverpool - Picasso: Peace and Freedom 21 May - 30 August 2010

Presented at Tate Liverpool from 21 May to 30 August 2010; this exhibition will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert.

This is the first exhibition to examine in depth the artist's engagement with politics and the Peace Movement, and will reflect a new Picasso for a new time. The exhibition provides a timely look at Picasso's work in the Cold War era and how the artist transcended the ideological and aesthetic oppositions of East and West.
This is the first exhibition to explore the post-War period of the artist's life in depth, and will reflect a new Picasso for a new time. The exhibition provides a timely look at Picasso's work in the Cold War era and how the artist transcended the ideological and aesthetic oppositions of East and West.

Guardian - Picasso: Challenging the Past at the National Gallery (slideshow)

Picasso spent a great deal of his working life directly measuring himself against and responding to the great masters of European painting.
Picasso: Challenging the Past, his first exhibition at the National Gallery, places his work in the context of the permanent collection, inviting a reassessment of the Spanish master and his inspiration

Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Upcoming Exhibitions | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

April 27, 2010-August 1, 2010
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor

This landmark exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) in the Museum's collection. It features 150 works, including the Museum's complete holdings of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics by Picasso-never before seen in their entirety-as well as a selection of the artist's prints. The Museum's collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multifaceted genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career.

Inside Art - London Show on Picasso’s Mediterranean Years - NYTimes.com

An exhibition focusing on Pablo Picasso's post-World War II output, organized by the artist's biographer and grandson, will open at the Gagosian Gallery in London on June 4.

Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945-62) | Visual art review | Art and design | The Guardian

Gagosian Gallery, London This wonderful exhibition is overspilling with great paintings, sculptures and ceramics infused with southern-European sex and death, writes Adrian Searle

MoMA | Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

MoMA | Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 February 13-June 6, 2011

Bringing together some 70 closely connected collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from over 30 public and private collections worldwide, this exhibition offers fresh insight into Picasso's cross-disciplinary process in the years immediately preceding World War I.

'Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914' - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

Images from the new Picasso exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

Picasso on a World Tour

Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

12 Nov 2011 - 25 Mar 2012
This exhibition will be the most significant Picasso exhibition to come to Australia. Part of a world tour, the Art Gallery of NSW is the only Australian venue.

Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

A summary of the exhibition room by room

From Spain to Paris: 1895-1905 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

This room looks at Picasso’s work produced in Spain and Paris from 1895 to 1905

The enchantments of Oceania and Africa: 1906-1909 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

This room looks at Picasso’s work influenced by the art of Oceania and Africa from 1906 to 1909.

Cubism, collage and constructions: 1910-1915 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

This room presents some of Picasso’s Cubist works, collages and constructions created between 1910 and 1915.

A return to classicism: 1916-1924 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

The period 1916 to 1924 saw Picasso return to classicism.

Brushes with surrealism: 1925-1935 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

Surrealism’s subconscious associations and dream states found parallel in Picasso's expressive and sometimes extreme distortions of the figure, often into animal-like forms, although Picasso's involvement with the movement remained marginal.

Anxieties of love and war: 1936-1939 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

The 1930s was a turbulent decade for Picasso. His marriage to Olga broke down when his lover Marie-Thérèse became pregnant, and in 1935 he began a relationship with the surrealist photographer and writer Dora Maar, who was the subject of some of his most complex portraits.

World War II to Korea: 1940-1951 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

Capturing the atmosphere of tension and uncertainty, symbols of death, particularly the skull, pervade Picasso's work in the 1940s.

The joy of life: 1952-1960 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

Picasso's work from the mid 1950s reflects a more cheerful outlook and time and in his later decades, the artist reworked some of the themes, methods and styles of earlier years.

Last decades: 1961-1972 :: Room by room :: Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso :: Art Gallery NSW

By now acclaimed as a master of modern art, Picasso worked with an urgent and defiant creativity in his last decades.

Picasso and Photography

Joan Fontcuba - the artist and the photograph: Pablo Picasso

DIURNES: WORKING NOTES Notes about Picasso's use of photography and access to photographs

Articles about Picasso

Guardian: Picasso's eyes perceived the infinite complexity of life

Jonathan Jones: As the National Gallery prepares for its first Pablo Picasso exhibition, a look back at his work reveals its enduring genius

Guardian: A momentous, tremendous exhibition

Two of the giants of modern art go head to head in Tate Modern's new show. Adrian Searle is thrilled by his sneak preview.

Guardian: Why Picasso's masterpiece is as relevant as it ever was

As Guernica returns to London, Jonathan Jones argues for its continuing vitality

Guardian: Picasso's Guernica battle lives on

As Spain commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Guernica bombing, should the famous masterpiece be relocated to the Basque country?

Guardian: Celebrating Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

100 years on, Picasso's awkward and provocative painting is still a monumental work of modern art.

Guardian: Paris match: Museums unite for Picasso season

Grand Palais, Louvre and Musée d'Orsay decide to work together to display Spanish master

Guardian: Museums unite for Picasso one-off

The most comprehensive exhibition ever of the works of Pablo Picasso has just opened at the Reina Sofia gallery in Madrid

New York Times - Picasso, Who Let His Imagination Run From Art to Language

In "Picasso and the Allure of Language," at Yale University Art Gallery, some 70 works chronicle the influence of language on the artist from 1900, when he was 19, to 1969, just four years before his death at 91. The exhibition also reunites, for the first time, artworks by Picasso originally owned by Gertrude and Leo Stein with materials from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers held at the university's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Guardian - The many faces of Pablo Picasso

Was he a playful genius, as some suggest, or a capricious and cruel misanthrope who left battered lives in his wake? On the eve of a new show in London, we speak to his closest friends and family in a…

Picasso and his erotic muse Marie-Thérèse Walter - Times Online

Marie-Thérèse Walter inspired many of the artist's most passionate paintings, yet she is often erased from the family history. On the eve of a landmark exhibition, Diana Widmaier-Picasso, their granddaughter, recounts the turbulent story to Morgan Falconer

Picasso is the great comedian of modern art | Derwent May - Times Online

If you go to the new London exhibition of the 20th-century's greatest painter, be prepared to have a laugh with him

Picasso's Blue Period 1901-04 | Art Knowledge News

Pablo Picasso one of the founders of modern abstract art, generally associated with cubism and related styles, at the time of Picasso's blue period, 1901-1904, abstract art as we know it today didn't yet exist.

New Statesman - From the NS archive: John Berger on Picasso

It was at the New Statesman that John Berger made his reputation, contributing his first article in 1951 at the age of 24 and writing regularly thereafter as the magazine%uFFFDs art critic. In this extract he explains the appeal of Pablo Picasso

Guardian - Picasso finds new lease of life in Antibes

Works created by Picasso during his stay in Antibes reflect the light and lore of the seaside town, and a revival of the painter's spirits

Guardian - £6.9m Picasso sketchbook stolen in Paris

A Picasso sketchbook worth more than %u20AC8m (£6.9m) has been stolen from a Paris museum dedicated to the artist, where it is believed to have been kept in an unlocked cabinet.

Guardian - Tate Liverpool exhibition to celebrate political Picasso

Picasso's cold war career as a highly political painter, peace campaigner and tireless fundraiser for leftwing causes will be revealed in an exhibition at Tate Liverpool next spring that will include letters from world leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Ho Chi Minh, as well as a telegram from Fidel Castro congratulating the artist on being awarded the Soviet Union's international peace prize.

Guardian - Picasso v the old masters? No contest

Jonathan Jones: The National Gallery's retrospective pits the Spanish genius against the all-time greats. So how does he fare?

Picasso Extravaganza Airs Met Museum Cache of Rarities, Wonders - Bloomberg.com

Posing in shorts, a three-piece suit and work clothes, Pablo Picasso stands in his studio staring down at the camera as if from Olympus, a stocky god challenging anyone to question his prowess.

"Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" documents the career he himself found formidable with works drawn entirely from the collection of the New York museum.

Picasso, Derain Cache, 40 Years in Vault, May Fetch $26 Million - Bloomberg.com

A cache of artworks by artists including Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and Andre Derain is expected to fetch as much as $26 million at auction after being hidden in a bank vault for 40 years.

Picasso painting sets world record price at auction | Art and design | The Guardian

1932 canvas entitled Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sold for $106m (£70m) at Christie's in New York, a record for a work of art sold at auction

Mum, dad, Picasso and me - Times Online

His parents were in awe of Picasso, a communist like themselves. But was the artist really as red as they were?

Picasso: Peace and Freedom | Art review | Art and design | The Observer

Picasso was a stalwart communist. But does politics define his art, asks Laura Cumming

271 unknown Pablo Picasso paintings and drawings discovered in France - Telegraph

A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least %u20AC60 million (£50 million). The electrician, who once worked for Picasso, squirrelled away the trove of artworks inside a trunk in the garage of his home on the French Riviera. The cache, dating from the artist's most creative period from 1900 to 1932, includes lithographs, portraits, watercolours, and sketches, plus nine Cubist collages said to be worth %u20AC40 million (£34 million)

Pablo Picasso - Information for Children

National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) - NGAkids INSIDE SCOOP: PABLO PICASSO

In the fall 2010 edition of "Inside Scoop," meet Pablo Ruiz Picasso, one of the most exciting artists of the 20th century. From his "Blue Period" in Paris to his "Rose Period" capturing the clowns and acrobats of the Cirque Médrano, Picasso explored the ways color and line could express ideas and emotions. Explore his paintings The Tragedy and The Family of Saltimbanques with our suggested activities, or go even further with recommended reading from the "book nook.

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Picasso on Television

BBC - BBC One Programmes - Modern Masters, Picasso

Alastair Sooke travels through Europe and the US to see some of Picasso's great works and understand how they influenced art and design in the twentieth century

BBC - Modern Masters - Virtual Exhibition : Picasso

Explore BBC One's Modern Masters Pablo Picasso virtual exhibition and get the lowdown on the controversial life and work of this restless genius.

Blogging about Picasso

Drawing etc: Picasso's landscapes

Picasso isn't well known for his landscapes so I was surprised recently to find them a treasure trove for the art student. A striking feature (to me, anyway) is that, despite his reputation as an "abstract" artist, his landscapes have a definite sense of place, more so than many photorealist-type landscape paintings.

Drawing etc: Picasso's way of working

His studies for the painting show how he worked, with numerous studies of variations of the group and of the individual figures.