Pablo Picasso
1881-1973 · Spanish · Cubism, Blue Period, Rose Period, Surrealism, Neoclassicism
Auction record: $179.37M
Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O), 1955 · Christie's, New York · May 11, 2015
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Biography
Pablo Picasso, born in Málaga in 1881 and active mainly in France, co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque and reshaped painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics over a career of more than seventy years. His enormous output, estimated at tens of thousands of works, means he appears at auction more often than almost any other modern master, from prints and ceramics to museum-grade canvases. For the market he is the benchmark blue-chip name: his works hold the records for several categories, his portraits of muses such as Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar draw global bidding, and his 1955 Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) sold for about 179.4 million dollars in 2015, still his public auction record.
Recent auction results
| Arlequin (Buste), 1909Sotheby's, New York | $42.6M | May 19, 2026 | sothebys.com |
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| Tête de femme (Fernande), bronzeChristie's, New York | $48.3M | May 18, 2026 | theartnewspaper.com |
| Homme à la guitare, 1913Christie's, New York | $40.8M | May 18, 2026 | theartnewspaper.com |
| La Lecture (Marie-Thérèse), 1932Christie's, New York | $45.4M | Nov 17, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com |
| Buste de femme, 1944Christie's, Hong Kong | $25.4M | Sep 26, 2025 | en.thevalue.com |
| La Statuaire, 1925Sotheby's, New York | $24.8M | Nov 18, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com |
Market
- Liquidity: High
Museums
- Musée national Picasso-Paris
- Museu Picasso, Barcellona
- Museo Picasso Málaga
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
News
- Oct 23, 2026: Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay and other Paris institutions to close on Saturday due to protests The Art Newspaper
Sources
- Wikipedia, List of most expensive paintings
- Wikipedia, Les Femmes d'Alger
- Wikipedia, Femme à la montre
- The Art Newspaper, Christie's Newhouse e 20th century, maggio 2026
- The Art Newspaper, Christie's 20th century, novembre 2025
- Sotheby's, New York spring season 2026 wrap-up
- The Art Newspaper, Sotheby's Modern evening sale maggio 2026
- The Value, Christie's Hong Kong autunno 2025
- The Art Newspaper, Christie's Hong Kong autunno 2025
- The Art Newspaper, Sotheby's Sydell Miller e Modern, novembre 2024
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