Editing Pablo Picasso (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Stamp P.JPG|thumb|upright|left|Postage stamp, USSR, 1973. Picasso has been honoured on stamps worldwide.]]
Picasso's influence was and remains immense and widely acknowledged by his admirers and detractors alike. On the occasion of his 1939 retrospective at New York's [[Museum of Modern Art]], ''Life'' magazine wrote: "During the 25 years he has dominated modern European art, his enemies say he has been a corrupting influence. With equal violence, his friends say he is the greatest artist alive."<ref name="spani" /> In 1971, Picasso was the first living artist to receive a special honour exhibition at the Grand Gallery of the [[Louvre]] Museum in Paris in celebration of his 90th birthday.<ref>{{cite web|title=15 Pablo Picasso fun facts|url=https://www.pablopicasso.org/picasso-facts.jsp|website=Pablopicasso.org|access-date=23 January 2021}}</ref> In 1998, [[Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes]] wrote of him: "To say that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. ... No painter or sculptor, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime. ... Though [[Marcel Duchamp]], that cunning old fox of conceptual irony, has certainly had more influence on nominally vanguard art over the past 30 years than Picasso, the Spaniard was the last great beneficiary of the belief that the language of painting and sculpture really mattered to people other than their devotees."<ref name="time82" />

===The Basel vote===
[[File:Basel - 2017 - Kunstmuseum Basel - Altbau.jpg|thumb|The [[Kunstmuseum Basel]]]]
In the 1940s, a Swiss insurance company based in [[Basel]] had bought two paintings by Picasso to diversify its investments and serve as a guarantee for the insured risks. Following an air disaster in 1967, the company had to pay out heavy reimbursements. The company decided to part with the two paintings, which were deposited in the [[Kunstmuseum Basel]]. In 1968, a large number of Basel citizens called for a local referendum on the purchase of the Picassos by the [[Canton of Basel-Stadt]], which was successful, making it the first time in democratic history that the population of a city voted on the purchase of works of art for a public art museum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=50th Anniversary of the Picasso Gift |url=https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/exhibitions/2018/picasso}}</ref> The paintings therefore remained in the museum in Basel. Informed of this, Picasso donated three paintings and a sketch to the city and its museum and was later made an honorary citizen by the city.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 October 2017 |title=The miracle of Picasso in Basel |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/art-and-democracy_a-picasso-miracle-in-basel/43572276}}</ref>

=== Museums ===
[[File:Hôtel Salé.JPG|thumb|right|[[Musée Picasso]], Paris (Hotel Salé, 1659)]]
At the time of Picasso's death many of his paintings were in his possession, as he had kept off the art market what he did not need to sell. In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of the work of other famous artists, some his contemporaries, such as [[Henri Matisse]], with whom he had exchanged works. Since Picasso left no will, his death duties (estate tax) to the French state were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection.<ref name=":7" /> These works form the core of the immense and representative collection of the [[Musée Picasso]] in Paris. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Carvajal |first=Doreen |date=2013-10-28 |title=Picasso Museum Makeover Drags On |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/arts/design/picasso-museum-makeover-drags-on.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In 2003, relatives of Picasso inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace, Málaga, Spain, the [[Museo Picasso Málaga]].<ref name="History">[http://www2.museopicassomalaga.org/i_02_2frameset.htm The Collection: History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125151156/http://www2.museopicassomalaga.org/i_02_2frameset.htm|date=2010-01-25}}, Museo Picasso Málaga. Accessed online 2010-01-16.</ref>

[[File:Museu Picasso Barcelona.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Museu Picasso]] is located in the [[Catalan Gothic|gothic]] palaces of Montcada street in [[Barcelona]].]]
The [[Museu Picasso]] in Barcelona features many of his early works, created while he was living in Spain, including many rarely seen works which reveal his firm grounding in classical techniques. The museum also holds many precise and detailed figure studies done in his youth under his father's tutelage, as well as the extensive collection of Jaime Sabartés, his close friend and personal secretary.{{fact|date=August 2023}}

In 1985, Museum Picasso Eugenio Arias' Collection established in [[Buitrago del Lozoya]] by Picasso's friend Eugenio Arias Herranz.<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Eugenio Arias, amigo y peluquero de Picasso|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2008/04/29/necrologicas/1209420002_850215.html|publisher=El Pais|date=28 April 2008|access-date=28 January 2023|language=Spanish}}</ref>

On 8 October 2010, ''Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris,'' an exhibition of 150 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs from the Musée National Picasso in Paris, opened at the [[Seattle Art Museum]], Seattle, Washington, US. The exhibition subsequently travelled to the [[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts]], Richmond, Virginia: the [[M.H. de Young Memorial Museum]], San Francisco, California, US.;<ref name="famsf" /> the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]], Sydney, Australia;<ref name="artg33" /> and the [[Art Gallery of Ontario]], Toronto, Ontario, Canada.{{fact|date=August 2023}}

It was announced on 22 September 2020 that the project for a new Picasso Museum due to open in [[Aix-en-Provence]] in 2021, in a former convent (Couvent des Prêcheurs), which would have held the largest collection of his paintings of any museum, had been scrapped due to the fact that Catherine Hutin-Blay, [[Jacqueline Picasso]]'s daughter, and the City Council had failed to reach an agreement.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-picasso-museum-in-aix-en-provence-is-scuppered| title = Plans for world's biggest Picasso museum in south of France scuppered|website= The Art Newspaper|first= Gareth|last= Harris| date = 22 September 2020}}</ref>

[[File:Ayuntamiento y Museo Picasso de Buitrago.jpg|thumb|Picasso Museum in Buitrago]]{{As of|2015}}, Picasso remained the top-ranked artist (based on sales of his works at auctions) according to the Art Market Trends report.<ref name="artpr" /> More of his paintings have been stolen than any other artist's;<ref name="fasci" /> in 2012, the [[Art Loss Register]] had 1,147 of his works listed as stolen.<ref name="regis" /> [[File:Street art in Barcelona - Pablo Picasso (2023).jpg|thumb|left|Street art portrait (Barcelona, 2023)]]

=== The Picasso Administration ===
Picasso's heirs formed a committee to formally authenticate his works at the beginning of the 1980s.<ref name=":11" /> However, disagreements regarding the legitimacy of a series of drawings led to the dissolution of the committee in 1993. Two of the children, Claude and Maya, began issuing authenticity certificates separately.<ref name=":11" /> Dealers claim that this has resulted in a situation that has been difficult and time-consuming, especially since auction houses were increasingly requesting certifications from both heirs due to the dual (and competing) authentication methods.<ref name=":11" />

In 2012, four of Picasso's five surviving heirs—Claude, Paloma Picasso, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, and Marina Ruiz-Picasso—established the Picasso Administration to authenticate works by the artist. They announced that Claude should now be the recipient of all authentication requests, adding that "only his opinions shall be fully and officially acknowledged by the undersigned."<ref name=":11" /> Claude legal administrator of the estate from 1989 until 2023, when his sister Paloma took over.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |date=2023-08-24 |title=Claude Picasso, Longtime Administrator of the Picasso Estate, Dies at 76 |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/claude-picasso-dead-1234677612/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

The Picasso Administration also manages the Picasso estate.<ref name=":11" /> The US copyright representative for the Picasso Administration is the [[Artists Rights Society]].<ref name="arsny" />

=== Auction history ===
[[File:Garçon à la pipe.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|right|Pablo Picasso, 1905, ''[[Garçon à la pipe]], (Boy with a Pipe),'' private collection, [[Rose Period]]]]
Several paintings by Picasso rank among the [[list of most expensive paintings|most expensive paintings in the world]]. ''[[Garçon à la pipe]]'' sold for US$104&nbsp;million at [[Sotheby's]] on 4 May 2004. ''[[Dora Maar au Chat]]'' sold for US$95.2&nbsp;million at Sotheby's on 3 May 2006.<ref name="milli"/> On 4 May 2010, ''[[Nude, Green Leaves and Bust]]'' was sold at [[Christie's]] for US$106.5&nbsp;million. The 1932 work, which depicts Picasso's mistress [[Marie-Thérèse Walter]] reclining and as a bust, was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009.<ref name="nyti3"/> On 11 May 2015 his painting ''[[Les Femmes d'Alger|Women of Algiers]]'' set the record for the [[List of most expensive paintings|highest price ever paid for a painting]] when it sold for US$179.3&nbsp;million at Christie's in New York.<ref name="ibti"/>

On 21 June 2016, a painting by Pablo Picasso titled ''Femme Assise'' (1909) sold for £43.2&nbsp;million ($63.4&nbsp;million) at Sotheby's London, exceeding the estimate by nearly $20&nbsp;million, setting a world record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a Cubist work.<ref name="cnnco"/><ref name="sothe"/>

On 17 May 2017, ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' in an article titled "Picasso Work Stolen By Nazis Sells for $45 Million at Auction" reported the sale of a portrait painted by Picasso, the 1939 ''Femme assise, robe bleu'', which was previously misappropriated during the early years of WWII. The painting has changed hands several times since its recovery, most recently through auction in May 2017 at Christie's in New York City.<ref name="jpost"/>

In March 2018, his ''[[Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)|Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée]]'' (1937), a portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, sold for £49.8m at Sotheby's in London.<ref name="gaur71"/>