542 - Pablo Picasso* (Málaga 1881 - 1973 Mougins)

Pablo Picasso* (Málaga 1881 - 1973 Mougins) Femme blonde a la fleur, 1968 etching/paper 6 x 8,3 cm dated in the plate 5.8.68 IV SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 250 - 500 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 250 Pablo Picasso was a Spanish-French painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist who played a pivotal role in shaping Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, and Surrealism. Born in Málaga on October 25, 1881, the son of an art teacher, he briefly studied at the La Llotja art academy in Barcelona before moving to the Bateau-Lavoir in Paris in 1904; there, between 1907 and 1914, he developed Cubism alongside Georges Braque—spanning works from Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) to Analytical Cubist pieces such as Ma Jolie (1911/12). He initiated collaborations with Jean Cocteau for the Ballets Russes in 1919, joined the French Communist Party after 1945, and was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1958. Picasso created works spanning Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, Neoclassicism in the 1920s (with references to Ingres), Surrealist imagery such as The Weeping Woman (1937), and symbolic doves—most notably the Dove of Peace (1949)—characterized by a fragmented formal language, multi-perspective spatial breakdown, and an expressive color palette, all influenced by Paul Cézanne, African sculpture, and classical antiquity. His oeuvre comprises over 50,000 works in oil, drawing, bronze, and ceramics, including key pieces like Guernica (1937), the works of the Blue Period, numerous creations from his time at the Bateau-Lavoir, and a complex dialogue with artists such as Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, and Max Ernst, as well as writers like Guillaume Apollinaire. In an art-historical context, key artists and concepts—such as Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Guillaume Apollinaire, Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, the Bateau-Lavoir, the Ballets Russes, Guernica, the Musée Picasso Paris, Paul Cézanne, Analytical Cubism, the Blue Period, and Max Ernst—define the dynamic interplay between the avant-garde, the literary milieu, and Picasso’s stylistic evolution. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.