Why did Picasso's self-portraits change?

The reason why Pablo Picasso's self-portraits changed over time is a matter of debate. On the one hand, the dramatic differences could represent the artist's changing views of himself as he aged. Some experts argue that when viewed within the context of his other works, the changes in the self-portraits reflect the development of his shifting style, which leaned more and more toward the abstract throughout the 20th century. On 1stDibs, find an assortment of Pablo Picasso art.

Picasso Cubist Portrait

Buste De Femme

Marina Picasso Estate Signed Lithographs

Marie Therese Picasso Lithograph

Picasso Signature

Pablo Picasso Signed Etching

Picasso Ink

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Lithograph

Pablo PicassoFemme Endormie, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso, 1982

$15,000

Femme Endormie, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Long Island City, NY

This Pablo Picasso print portrays a nude woman who has fallen asleep. The figure reclines backward toward the viewer, resting on her back. The artist's use of flowing line and the br...

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1980s Cubist Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo PicassoVisage sur Fond Rouge, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso, 1982

$12,200

Visage sur Fond Rouge, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Long Island City, NY

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Visage sur Fond Rouge". The original painting was completed in 1914. In the 1970's after Pic...

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1980s Cubist Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo PicassoFemme Profile (Marie-Therese Walter), Cubist Lithograph After Pablo Picasso, of Original: 1937 Year Printed: 1979-1982

$13,000

Femme Profile (Marie-Therese Walter), Cubist Lithograph After Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Long Island City, NY

Femme Profile (Marie-Therese Walter), Pablo Picasso (After), Spanish (1881–1973) Portfolio: Marina Picasso Estate Lithograph Collection Date: of Original: 1937 Year Printed: 1979-19...

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Late 20th Century Cubist Portrait Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Pablo Picasso60 Years of Graphic Works, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso, 1966

$3,000

60 Years of Graphic Works, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Long Island City, NY

Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) - 60 Years of Graphic Works: Los Angeles County Museum. Year: 1966, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 2500, Size: 26 in. x 20 in. (66.04 cm x 50.8 cm)...

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1960s Cubist Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

$1,500

Homage to Woman with Book by Picasso, Cubist Giclee & Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Located in Long Island City, NY

Unknown Artist - Homage to Woman with Book by Picasso, Medium: Giclee and Acrylic on Canvas, Size: 24.5 x 20.25 in. (62.23 x 51.44 cm)

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Mid-20th Century Cubist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Giclée

Pablo PicassoLes Dejeuners Dessins Originaux de Picasso, Screenprint, 1962

$2,500

Les Dejeuners Dessins Originaux de Picasso, Screenprint

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Long Island City, NY

Pablo Picasso (after), Spanish (1881 - 1973) - Les Dejeuners Dessins Originaux de Picasso. Year: 1962, Medium: Typographic Printing in 13 Colors on Paper, Edition: 1025, Size: 24 in....

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1960s Cubist Portrait Prints

Offset

Gustavo UbedaOriginal Picasso Inspired Surrealist Figures and Fantasy Cityscape Oil Painting, 1970s

$4,571

Original Picasso Inspired Surrealist Figures and Fantasy Cityscape Oil Painting

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Their angular faces, overlapping profiles and expressive eyes evoke the visual freedom of Pablo Picasso’s Cubist portraits, while the floating symbols and playful architecture bring ...

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1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Wyanne ThompsonUp To No Good Gang, Original Signed Bold Contemporary Abstract Figure Painting, 2021

$1,800

Up To No Good Gang, Original Signed Bold Contemporary Abstract Figure Painting

By Wyanne Thompson

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Reminiscent of Pablo Picasso's cubist portraits, this painting by Wyanne Thompson features a bold color scheme of bright orange, blue, purple, and green.

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Vintage After Pablo Picasso Cubist Figural Scarf 1980s

$145

Vintage After Pablo Picasso Cubist Figural Scarf 1980s

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

Large Colorful Vintage Satin Scarf, Abstract Cubist Picasso Portrait 1980s Classic “Picasso” Museum Print Scarf.

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Lithograph

$4,500

Baj Chez Picasso 6, Etching by Enrico Baj

By Enrico Baj

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Enrico Baj, Italian (1924 - 2003) Title: Baj Chez Picasso 6 Year: 1969 Medium: Aquatint Etching with collage, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 58/100 Image Size: 19.5 x...

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1960s Cubist Portrait Prints

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Etching

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Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso Ceramic "Visage Barbu"

Unavailable

Dm 9.85 in

Pablo Picasso Ceramic "Visage Barbu"

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Geneva, CH

n° 20/100 Signed on the back : Madoura Plein Feu ; Empreinte Originale de Picasso; 20/100 Ramié, A., Catalogue of the edited ceramic work, n°413, p. 218.

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1950s Cubist Portrait Paintings

Vintage French Scarf after Pablo Picasso Cubist Portrait of "Femme Assise 1980s

Sold

W 35 in L 34 in

Vintage French Scarf after Pablo Picasso Cubist Portrait of "Femme Assise 1980s

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

Large Colorful Vintage Satin Scarf, Abstract Cubist Picasso Portrait 1980s Classic “Picasso” Museum Print Scarf.

Lithograph

Pablo Picasso1972 Pablo Picasso 'Galerie Felix Vercel' Vintage Lithograph, 1972

$200Sale Price|20% Off

H 27.5 in W 19.75 in D 0.1 in

1972 Pablo Picasso 'Galerie Felix Vercel' Vintage Lithograph

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Portrait of a Harlequin is a striking aquatint poster created for Galerie Félix Vercel in 1972. This poster is part of a series of aquatints presented by the gallery, showcasing Pica...

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1970s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Rosewood

$14,500

H 30 in W 114 in D 37.5 in

American Designer, Curved Sofa, Iron, Velvet, USA, 1950s

Located in High Point, NC

A curved black-painted iron and green velvet sofa designed and produced in the US, c. 1950s. Reupholstered in brand new velvet. Size of individual section: 30” H x 63” W x 37.5” D ...

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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Iron

Camille PissarroPaysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault, c. 1875

$275,000

H 10.375 in W 14.75 in

Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault

By Camille Pissarro

Located in Palm Desert, CA

"Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault (Landscape with Thresher at Montfoucault)" is a pastel by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The artwork is signed lower right, "C. Pissarro...

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1870s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel, Board

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Picasso Cubist Portrait For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact picasso cubist portrait you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. Find Contemporary versions now, or shop for Contemporary creations for a more modern example of these cherished works. You’re likely to find the perfect picasso cubist portrait among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 19th Century as well as those made as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add a picasso cubist portrait to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of beige, gray, brown, white and more. There have been many interesting picasso cubist portrait examples over the years, but those made by Pablo Picasso, (after) Pablo Picasso, Enrico Baj, Beatrice Werlie and Alfred Challier are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Frequently made by artists working in lithograph, etching and oil paint, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Picasso Cubist Portrait?

The average selling price for a picasso cubist portrait we offer is $2,325, while they’re typically $248 on the low end and $145,462 for the highest priced.

A Close Look at Cubist Art

Inspired by the nontraditional ways Postimpressionists like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat depicted the world, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered an even more abstract style in which reality was fragmented into flat, geometric forms. Cubism majorly influenced 20th-century Western art as it radically broke with the adherence to composition and linear perspectives that dated back to the Renaissance. Its watershed moments are considered Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which nude figures are fractured into angular shapes, and Georges Braque’s 1908 painting show, which prompted a critic to describe his visual reductions as “cubes.”

Although Cubism was a revolutionary art movement for European culture, it was informed by African masks and other tribal art. Its artists, which included Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, experimented with compressing space and playing with the tension between solid and void forms in their work. While their subjects were often conventional, such as still lifes, nudes and landscapes, they were distorted without any illusion of realism.

Cubist art evolved through different distinct phases. In Analytic Cubism, from 1908 to 1912, figures or objects were “analyzed” into pieces that were reassembled in paintings and sculptures, as if presenting the same subject matter from many perspectives at once. The palette was usually monochromatic and muted, giving attention to the overlapping planes. Synthetic Cubism, dating from 1912 to 1914, moved to brighter colors and a further flattening of images. This unmooring from formal ideas of art would shape numerous styles that followed, from Dada to Surrealism.

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Finding the Right Prints-works-on-paper for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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Questions About Picasso Cubist Portrait

Why did Picasso's self-portraits change?
1 Answer
1stDibs ExpertFebruary 1, 2024
The reason why Pablo Picasso's self-portraits changed over time is a matter of debate. On the one hand, the dramatic differences could represent the artist's changing views of himself as he aged. Some experts argue that when viewed within the context of his other works, the changes in the self-portraits reflect the development of his shifting style, which leaned more and more toward the abstract throughout the 20th century. On 1stDibs, find an assortment of Pablo Picasso art.