Pablo PICASSO (d’après) - Homme à la marinière et à la cigarette, Lithographie signée

Pablo Picasso : Pablo Ruiz Picasso is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Born in Malaga in 1881, he arrives at Barcelona at 15 and makes his first exposition five years later. He established himself at "Bateau-Lavoir" studio in Paris (Montmartre) in 1904. His early paintings are classical at that time and divided by periods, the "blue period" (1901-1904) followed by the "pink period" (1904-1906). Marked by new influences (Ingres, Cézanne, Gauguin) and new meetings (Matisses, Braques, Derain), Picasso's painting made a radical turn clearly perceptible in his "Demoiselles d’Avignon" (1906-1907). This geometrization which quickly became fragmentation, followed by Braque, announced the birth of Cubism. In this revolutionary artistic impulsion, the year 1911 is marked by the first "papiers collés" of the art History. His native Spain clearly influenced his works between 1930-1944. Affected by the Civil War, he awaked himself to militancy with "Guernica", 1937. A same anxiety can be felt through his parisian works during Second World War ("Still life with steer skull", 1942). His setting in the south of France and his membership to the Communist Party in 1944 gives way to hope in his painting ("La joie de vivre", 1946). Years 1950-1960 show the influence of contemporaries such as Matisse and great masters as Delacroix, Velázquez, Manet or David. He works until his death in Mougins, in 1973.
Bernard Buffet : (1928 - 1999) was a major French expressionist painter and lithograph. His works belong to the collections of the greatest museums in Europe, Americas and Asia : In France (Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Institut culturel Bernard Magrez, Centre national des arts plastiques, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot); US (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Carnegie Museum of art, Boca Raton Museum of art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum); Denmark (Randers Kunstmuseum); Germany (MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Merkel collection & foundation); Macedonia (Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje); Finland (Tampereen kaupunki - Tampere Art Museum); Japan (National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection,Ohara Museum of Art, The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation); UK (Tate Collection); Sweden (The Modern Museum - Moderna Museet); and Taiwan (JuMing Museum)