Attributed to Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Untitled, Medium: Pastel on paper, Date: ca. 1960, Size: 14" H x 11.25" W (inches). This lot is accompanied by a Certificate of Attribution and is not a reproduction, it is a unique piece. We recommend that the buyer do their research before bidding on the lot. The sale of this lot is final.. Was one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. His contributions to the history of Modern Art namely Cubism, the movement he developed with Georges Braque between 1908 and 1914 as well as his radical use of form, color, and perspective have influenced countless artists, including Willem de Kooning and David Hockney. There are artists who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun, he once mused. Born Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano Maria de los Remedios de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He showed prodigious talent for art at an early age while studying under his father the painter Jose Ruiz Blasco. Picasso went on to study at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid before travelling to Barcelona and finally Paris, where he settled in 1904. His early career rapidly transitioned from Neo-Impressionist studies, through the Blue and Rose Periods, and reached a culmination in his proto-Cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles davignon (1907). Constantly in search of creative innovation he culled visual influences from African sculptures, the works of El Greco and Henri Rousseau, as well as childrens artwork. Picasso was not limited to painting, and found ever new ways of expressing himself through collage, sculpture, and ceramics. Deeply affected by the Spanish Civil War, Picasso created what is arguably his greatest and most overtly political work with Guernica (1937), a mural-sized painting depicting the horrors of war in contrasting grayscale. The artist died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as institutions devoted solely to his life and work which include the Museo Picasso Malaga, the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, and the Musee National Picasso in Paris.

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