This linear rendering of a kissing couple using only few colour is a great example of Picasso involvement with the Surrealist movement. The two figures, depicted in profile, have an explosive force that fills the whole composition.
"The violence of the eroticism, both male and female, to which Picasso gives …
- Medium
- Condition
- Mint
- Signature
- Knotted signature ‘Picasso’ on the verso; embroidered inscription ‘Picasso ©’on the reverse.
- Certificate of authenticity
- Included
- Frame
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A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. Along with Georges Braque, Picasso is best known for pioneering Cubism in an attempt to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane, once asking, “Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” Responding to the Spanish Civil War, he painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), whose violent images of anguished figures rendered in grisaille made it a definitive work of anti-war art. “Painting is not made to decorate apartments,” he said. “It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” Picasso’s sizable oeuvre includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs.
- High auction record
- $179.4m, Christie's, 2015
- Blue-chip
- Represented by internationally recognized galleries.
- Collected by major museums
- Tate, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
- 2019
- Picasso – Birth of a Genius, UCCA
- 2018
- The EY Exhibition: PICASSO 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy, Tate
- 2017
- Picasso 1932. Année érotique, Musée Picasso Paris
Le Baiser, 1979/1980
This linear rendering of a kissing couple using only few colour is a great example of Picasso …
- Medium
- Condition
- Mint
- Signature
- Knotted signature ‘Picasso’ on the verso; embroidered inscription ‘Picasso ©’on the reverse.
- Certificate of authenticity
- Included
- Frame
- Not included
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. Along with Georges Braque, Picasso is best known for pioneering Cubism in an attempt to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane, once asking, “Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” Responding to the Spanish Civil War, he painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), whose violent images of anguished figures rendered in grisaille made it a definitive work of anti-war art. “Painting is not made to decorate apartments,” he said. “It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” Picasso’s sizable oeuvre includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs.
- High auction record
- $179.4m, Christie's, 2015
- Blue-chip
- Represented by internationally recognized galleries.
- Collected by major museums
- Tate, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Series by this artist
- Portraits of Artists and Sculptors119 available
- Bulls109 available
- Linocuts106 available
- Picadors58 available
- Dancers35 available
- Portraits of His Lovers33 available
- 347 Suite23 available
- Owls23 available
- Fish20 available
- Doves19 available
- Vollard Suite13 available
- 156 Suite8 available
- Weeping Women5 available
- Saltimbanques Suite4 available
- Honoré de Balzac3 available
- Cubist Period1 available