01 Painting, The Streets of Paris, Pablo Picasso's Morphine Addicts (Morphinomanes), with footnotes #95

Pablo Picasso, 1881 - 1973

Morphine Addicts (Morphinomanes), c. 1900

Oil and pastel on canvas

21¾ by 18¼ in., 55.2 by 46.4 cm

Private collection

Sold for 1,270,000 USD in May 2023

The nightlife of Paris proved to be a revelation to Picasso. His large oil Le Moulin de la Galette, now in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, conveyed the dynamism and energy he found in the cafés and concert halls of Montmartre as well as the dark underside of this popular gathering place which had been previously disregarded in previous portrayals by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. According to John Richardson, “within weeks of arriving in Paris the nineteen-year-old Spaniard had established his right to a place in the modern French tradition… More on this painting

Available for sale for 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD on May 17, 2023

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. More on Pablo Picasso

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