Incollect Magazine - Issue 4

Issue 4 108 www.incollect.com Pablo Picasso’s Enduring Legacy To mark the 50th anniversary of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso’s death, on April 8, 2023, France and Spain have agreed to declare 2023 as the Year of Picasso. More than 45 exhibitions are being organized in France, Spain and elsewhere, worldwide, to celebrate Picasso and his legacy, a powerful restatement of his global reputation and influence as a major — if not the most important — 20th century artist. Picasso (1881–1973) was the central figure in Cubism, a movement of young painters living in Paris in the first decade of the 20th century who sought to redefine the form and content of painting. His legacy of innovation inspired artists everywhere to abandon traditional modes of representation and subject matter and embrace experimentation. He helped to alter the course of modern art. Picasso was an immensely talented and enormously productive artist who throughout his long career of 70 years produced paintings, sculpture, ceramics, drawings and prints, among other things. His paintings are the most desirable among art collectors — his auction record sits at $179 million, for Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’), 1955, sold at Christie’s in New York in 2015. It is one of the world’s most expensive works of art. By Benjamin Genocchio