Picasso Portraits - Collectors Pay Huge Prices For Pablo Paintings!
Pablo Picasso portraits and paintings command huge amounts of money at art auctions.
In fact, there is only one other painter, Vincent van Gogh, whose paintings sold for higher prices than Picasso's.
At one time, the highest price paid for a painting ever was for van Gogh's Portrait of Dr.
Gachet, which sold at auction for $82.
5 million in 1990.
A self portrait by the same artist sold for $71.
5 million in 1998.
However, van Gogh, although he was prolific just like Picasso was, died at the young age of 37, and only 870 paintings of his exist.
Also, in recent years Picasso's works have broken the record for the highest price ever paid for a painting.
Picasso portraits have spawned almost an industry all of its own.
In the year 2000, over 30 Picasso paintings were auctioned and brought in over $150 million dollars.
This is, of course, only public sales.
Any sales done by private galleries or art dealers are not counted.
Nor are Picasso's other works, such as sketches, tapestries, lithographs and other media.
Part of the reason for this massive buying frenzy is that Picasso was a key figure in the shift towards a new form of art.
He co-founded Cubism in 1907 along with Georges Braque.
Cubism presented an entirely new way of representing reality.
Figures were taken apart and then pieced back together in pieces, combining various angles to make the finished work.
Another reason is that there are literally tons of Picasso portraits and paintings floating around.
Picasso was not only prolific, he was long-lived.
He died in 1973 at the ripe old age of 92, and was reported to have created one painting a day right up until his death.
His works number in the thousands and thousands.
One of the highest selling Picasso portraits was Boy with a Pipe, which sold for $104 million at Sotheby's in 2004.
Woman with Crossed Arms (1901), a work from his blue period, sold for $55 million at Christie's in New York.
The painting was on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from the McCormick family.
His 1932 portrait of his mistress, Nude on a Black Armchair, sold for $45.
5 million, bought by The Limited Inc.
chairman Leslie Wexner.
Another portrait, Woman Sitting in a Garden, sold for $49.
5 million at that same auction.
Luckily, of course, us regular people can bring Picasso portraits into our homes for much, much less.
Prints of Picasso's major works, and some of his minor works and sketches, can be found as prints and posters.
And prints, of course, are far less expensive than the real thing! While it might be appealing to own a 'real' Picasso, if you simply want to appreciate his work and have it in your home, prints make that possible.
In fact, there is only one other painter, Vincent van Gogh, whose paintings sold for higher prices than Picasso's.
At one time, the highest price paid for a painting ever was for van Gogh's Portrait of Dr.
Gachet, which sold at auction for $82.
5 million in 1990.
A self portrait by the same artist sold for $71.
5 million in 1998.
However, van Gogh, although he was prolific just like Picasso was, died at the young age of 37, and only 870 paintings of his exist.
Also, in recent years Picasso's works have broken the record for the highest price ever paid for a painting.
Picasso portraits have spawned almost an industry all of its own.
In the year 2000, over 30 Picasso paintings were auctioned and brought in over $150 million dollars.
This is, of course, only public sales.
Any sales done by private galleries or art dealers are not counted.
Nor are Picasso's other works, such as sketches, tapestries, lithographs and other media.
Part of the reason for this massive buying frenzy is that Picasso was a key figure in the shift towards a new form of art.
He co-founded Cubism in 1907 along with Georges Braque.
Cubism presented an entirely new way of representing reality.
Figures were taken apart and then pieced back together in pieces, combining various angles to make the finished work.
Another reason is that there are literally tons of Picasso portraits and paintings floating around.
Picasso was not only prolific, he was long-lived.
He died in 1973 at the ripe old age of 92, and was reported to have created one painting a day right up until his death.
His works number in the thousands and thousands.
One of the highest selling Picasso portraits was Boy with a Pipe, which sold for $104 million at Sotheby's in 2004.
Woman with Crossed Arms (1901), a work from his blue period, sold for $55 million at Christie's in New York.
The painting was on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from the McCormick family.
His 1932 portrait of his mistress, Nude on a Black Armchair, sold for $45.
5 million, bought by The Limited Inc.
chairman Leslie Wexner.
Another portrait, Woman Sitting in a Garden, sold for $49.
5 million at that same auction.
Luckily, of course, us regular people can bring Picasso portraits into our homes for much, much less.
Prints of Picasso's major works, and some of his minor works and sketches, can be found as prints and posters.
And prints, of course, are far less expensive than the real thing! While it might be appealing to own a 'real' Picasso, if you simply want to appreciate his work and have it in your home, prints make that possible.
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