- Authorized offset lithograph on heavyweight smooth satin paper (300gsm approx.). - Edition 1999. © Pablo Picasso by SIAE. - Stamp on verso. - Size: 40 x 50 cm. - Condition: excellent. Never framed, never exposed. - Pablo Picasso (born October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain—died April 8, 1973, Mougins, France) was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. He was one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. Picasso’s work remains a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to and paralleled the whole development of modern art in the 20th century. Picasso’s most prized paintings derive from various stages in his life: the early-career Rose and Blue periods and his groundbreaking experiments in Cubism, through his output in the years leading up to and during World War II up to the late 1960s, when he was already world famous. Central to Picasso’s oeuvre are portraits of his various muses: Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque, each of whom the artist had a series of complicated affairs. These portraits, which range from sensual to tormented, have become some of the most recognizable in art history. In terms of the value of his works, Picasso remains the top-grossing artist at auction worldwide, raking in $245 million across 3,400 lots in 2020 alone. The prices for his works vary greatly, with paintings being valued between 150,000 – 85,000,000 €, ceramics between 1,300 – 21,000 €, drawings between 7,000 – 8,000,000 €, and prints between 150 – 9,500 €. Artists of similar importance: Basquiat, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Miro, Banksy, Brainwash, Delaunay, Nara, Soulages, Lagasse, Ramos, Warhol, Lautrec, Klimt, Matisse, Hirst, Chagall, Koons, Haring, Indiana, Mondrian, Groening, Richter, Monroe, Kusama, Murakami, Testa, Villemot, Oldenburg, Hopper, Ripolles, Wesselmann, Magritte, Jenk, Orlinski, Wille, Rizzi, Manara, Thiebaud, Cappiello, Rothko, Dalí, among others.