# Picasso's most famous paintings

From the Blue Period to Guernica: the Picasso paintings every list repeats and which museum they are in.

- 39 votes · 18 items
- Apr 20, 2025 · Karla Álvarez
- https://even.best/en/l/3095/picasso-s-most-famous-paintings

## Top 18

1. **Guernica** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1937. The bombing of the Basque town in black, white and grey; Reina Sofía Museum.
2. **The Old Guitarist** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1903-1904. The Blue Period at its purest; Art Institute of Chicago.
3. **La Vie** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1903. The great allegorical canvas of the Blue Period; Cleveland Museum of Art.
4. **Boy with a Pipe** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1905. The Rose Period; one of the most expensive paintings ever auctioned.
5. **Girl before a Mirror** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1932. Marie-Thérèse Walter in intense colours; MoMA.
6. **Les Demoiselles d'Avignon** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1907. The painting that opened the way to Cubism; MoMA.
7. **The Weeping Woman** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1937. Dora Maar with the grief of Guernica; Tate Modern.
8. **Family of Saltimbanques** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1905. Rose Period circus performers; National Gallery of Art, Washington.
9. **Las Meninas (series)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1957. 58 variations on Velázquez; Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
10. **Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1955. A tribute to Delacroix; an auction record in 2015.
11. **The Dream** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1932. Marie-Thérèse asleep, in curves and flat colours.
12. **Dora Maar au Chat** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1941. A seated portrait that broke auction records.
13. **Science and Charity** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1897. Painted at 15; Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
14. **Self-Portrait (1907)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The mask-like face from the time of the Demoiselles; National Gallery Prague.
15. **Three Musicians** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1921. The great example of Synthetic Cubism; MoMA.
16. **Portrait of Gertrude Stein** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1906. The writer with a mask-like face; the Met.
17. **Massacre in Korea** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1951. His protest against the Korean War; Musée Picasso, Paris.
18. **Paulo as Harlequin** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — 1924. His son Paulo; Musée Picasso, Paris.

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