©Pablo Picasso paintings 1970-1973

Picasso's final works were a mixture of styles, his means of expression in constant flux until the end of his life. Devoting his full energies to his work, Picasso became more daring, his works more colorful and expressive, and from 1968 to 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings. At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime. Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered Neo-Expressionism and was, as so often before, ahead of his time.

Matador Matador and female nude Musketeer Reclining Nude with wreath Seated old man
Matador
1970
Matador and
female nude
1970
Musketeer
1970
Reclining Nude
with wreath
1970
Seated
old man
1970
The eight names of Picasso Untitled  Le Trefle a Quatre Feuilles Untitled Woman with bird
The eight names
of Picasso
1970
Untitled
1970
Le Trefle a
Quatre Feuilles
1970
Untitled
1970
Woman with
bird
1970
Bust of woman Crouching man Embrace Head of a man with straw hat Man and Woman
Bust of woman
1971
Crouching man
1971
Embrace
1971
Head of a man
with straw hat
1971
Man and Woman
1971
Paternity Seated woman Untitled Untitled Untitled
Paternity
1971
Seated woman
1971
Untitled
1971
Untitled
1971
Untitled
1971
Untitled Woman with braid Niko Pirosmani 1971 At Work
Untitled
1971
Woman with
braid
1971
Niko Pirosmani
1972
At Work
1971