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Pablo Picasso
[Spanish Cubist Painter and Sculptor, 1881-1973]
| • Also known as: | Pablo Ruiz Picasso
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso | | • Relationships: | Painter Françoise Gilot lived with Picasso for ten years and bore him two children: Claude and Paloma Picasso.
Picasso fathered two other children - Paulo (with Olga Koklova) and Maya (with Marie-Thérèse Walter).
Picasso also had a long affair with Dora Maar.
Picasso founded the Cubist movement in collaboration with Georges Braque. | | • Browse all: Spanish artists / sculptors |
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Pablo Picasso Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
An analysis of Picasso's The Old Guitarist, by the museum's department of conservation
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
9 prints online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Pablo Picasso at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
6 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 23 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
38 works by Picasso
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée National Picasso, Paris (in French) 
Musée National Picasso La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France (in French)
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Pipe and Sheet Music, 1914
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Three Women at the Fountain, pastel, 1921
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Rower, 1910
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Two Women in Front of a Window, 1927
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Conserving a Modern Masterpiece
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Sculptor with his Model, his Sculpture and a Bowl of Anenomes (In the "Etching" section)
Bull, various states (In the "Lithograph" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
Child with a Dove, 1901
Fruit Dish, Bottle and Violin, 1914
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
In-depth study of The Tragedy, 1903
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Only 3 works online
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
A cup
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Portrait of Fernande Olivier
Woman's Head (Tête de femme)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
First Steps
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)
Grande natura morta, 1917
N.B. The zoom-in feature ("esplora") only works with Internet Explorer
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
7 works online
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Woman in a Peplos
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Glass of Absinthe (Le Verre d'absinthe)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Head of a Woman (Fernande Olivier), sculpture
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Women and Child by the Sea, drawing
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
La Sieste (Les Moissonneurs), 1919
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
3 works listed
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
6 works online
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Picnic area
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Illustration from Sable Mouvant
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
3 works by the artist
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish)
(Works are shown at the right, under "Obras")
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Information dossier on the artist
Céret Museum of Modern Art, France (in French)
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, East Sussex, England
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Tête de femme, 1933
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Still Life with Compote and Glass, 1914-15
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Un verre sur une table (A Glass on a Table)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Le Vieux Roi, linocut
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Dream and Lie of Franco, 1937
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
King
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Pierrot et Arlequin
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
Fundación Picasso / Museo Casa Natal, Malaga, Spain
No art online that I can find
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Vrouw met mosterdpot, 1909-10
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
The Flower Seller
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Hammer Museum, California
Works on paper from a 2006 exhibition
Hammer Museum, California
The Dancer (La danse), graphite drawing on blue paper, 1933
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Haugesund Museum of Fine Art, Norway (mostly in Norwegian)
Bathsheba
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Guitar on a Table, 1912
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
2 etchings from The Vollard Suite
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Four Figures, ink drawing, 1926
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Boy Holding a Blue Vase, 1905
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "P"
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia
Still Life with Skull, 1946 (click "next" 3 times to see the painting)
Lille Metropole Musee d'Art Moderne, France (in French)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Madison Museum of Fine Art, Inc., Georgia
Portrait of Frederic Joliot-Curie lithograph
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
La Celestina, 1904
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
A los toros II, lithograph, 1961
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Cock of the Liberation
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Several works online
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Femme Couchee Lisant (Reclining Woman Reading), 1960
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
(Keep clicking the "right" arrow for a sculpture and a painting by Picasso)
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Femme assise à l'écharpe
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French)
Tête de femme souriante
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (mostly in French)
Buste de femme assise, 1960
Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)
Femme Lisant, 1920
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Femme assise sur la plage
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Embrace, 1971
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Enfant assis, 1921
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Nu à mi-corps, 1923
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Baigneuse, 1928
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Au cirque: Ecuyère, clown et Pierrot, 1968
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Jeune garçon rêvant: Les femmes!, 1968
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Still-life, 1962
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Portrait of Max Jacob, 1907
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
3 works online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
56 works by Picasso
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Some works from the 2009 exhibition Pablo Picasso: I do not seek. I find.
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Weeping Woman, 1937
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Seated model and sculptor studying sculptured head
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2 works online
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Pientre Devant Son Chevalet
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
The Bather, 1922
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, 1901
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
Olga au col de fourrure, 1923
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian)
Several works on this and subsequent pages
Palazzo Grassi, Venice - the François Pinault Foundation exhibition space
Info and images from the exhibition, Picasso, la joie de vivre. 1945-1948
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
3 works by Picasso on this page
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Tete De Femme En Profile (Profile of a Woman's Head), etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Portrait of Thérèse Walter
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Tete de Chevre de Profil, ceramic, ca.1950
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #8
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
The Girl On A Ball, 1905
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
La Belle Hollandaise, 1905
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Richmond Art Museum, Indiana
Pour Robi
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Guitare et compotier, 1920
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
7 works online
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Woman with a Pitcher, 1919
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia
Study of Dora Maar, mixed media on paper, 1942
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Table, Guitar, and Bottle (La Table), 1919-20
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Scroll down for 3 prints by Kollwitz
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Three Women, rhythmic version, 1908
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Nude
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Luncheon on the Grass
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Berlin
3 artworks online
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Seated Woman with Fish Hat, 1942
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2004-2005 exhibition
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Torso of a Woman, 1953
Telefónica Foundation Collections, Madrid (in Spanish)
5 works
The Albertina, Vienna
4 works online
The Albertina, Vienna
4 works online
The Albertina, Vienna
The Guitar Player, 1912
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
Harlequins, 1905
Pablo Picasso at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Coe College Permanent Collection of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Vallauris Exposition, woodblock print, 1952
The Hepworth Wakefield, England
The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
4 Gats Menu card: Plat del Dia, ca.1900
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece), 1927-31
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Flower Vase on a Table, 1942
University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, Missouri
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Femme en Vert, 1909
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Musketier und Amor, 1969
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Die Familie Soler, 1903
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Coiffure, 1923
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Search results for "Pablo Picasso"
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Portrait of Fernande Olivier, drypoint, 1906
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
415 results - click on "Groupe suivant" to see page forward through search results
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Miscellaneous Sites:
On-Line Picasso Project
Extensive biography and overview of the artist's work, with excellent reproductions. Highly recommended.
Picasso Érotique versus Picasso Classique (in French)
Succession Picasso Official Web Site
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
Angel de Fernandez (The Absinthe Drinker)
Art of the First World War
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Picasso: Tradition and Avant-garde at Museo del Prado (7 works online)
Columbia University Visual Media Center
Flash-based presentation about Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
FBI Art Theft Program
Dora Maar, 1938, painting stolen from a yacht in Antibes in 1999
FBI Art Theft Program
Dance, 1956, stolen from the Museu Chacara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro
Kilidavid
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
3 works online when last checked
PBS
The story behind Guernica
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Rocbo Culture (in French)
Geometric analysis of 2 works by Picasso
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Harlequin with Guitar, drawing, 1916
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Jester, crayon on paper
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Guernica and its influence on other artists
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pablo Picasso 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"Picasso Looks at Degas" (2010)
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Vase Deux Anses Hautes, 1953. Ceramic
Apollo Magazine
Article: "Silver compotiers by Picasso"
Art + Auction Magazine
Tête de femme (Dora Maar), painting, 1938
Art + Auction Magazine
Tête de femme (Dora Maar), sculpture
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Jeune Fille assise, pencil drawing, 1921
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Two Men and a Woman, 5.11.70, 1970
Artnet Magazine
Three Musicians, 1921
Artnet Magazine
Postcard to Jean Cocteau, 1919
Three Bathers, Juan-les-Pins, 1920
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Dora Maar's Picassos: A Trek Through Classicism and Caricature," article by Souren Melikian
London Review of Books
Review of an exhibition of Picasso's work at the National Gallery, London
New York Magazine
"The Picassos From the Basement", 2010 article by Jerry Saltz
Salon Magazine
"Voluptuous Curves"
The Art Story
The Atlantic Monthly
Several articles on Picasso, taken from the magazine's archives
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945-62)", 2010 review by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes", 2010 review by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Weeping Woman, 1937
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Three Dancers, 1925
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Portrait of Félix Pissarro
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Pablo's coming home", 2006 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Pablo goes it alone", 2009 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard
"Poor Picasso", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"The glove that changed Guernica", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"Picasso and Matisse: no contest", 2002 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"MoMA Extravaganza of Matisse-Picasso A Great Exhibition", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Everybody Loves Picasso, Even Critics and Nazis", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Matisse Picasso" at MOMA, 2003 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker
"Picasso's Lust", 2001 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker
"Picasso: Tradition and Avant-Garde" in Madrid, 2006 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Peter Halley on Picasso's Still Life on a Pedestal Table, 1931
The Village Voice
"MOMA's Boys (Matisse/Picasso )", 2003 article by Jerry Saltz
Vanity Fair Magazine
"Between Picasso and Matisse", 2003 article by John Richardson
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