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Number of paintings

According to the article, Picasso produced 1,885 paintings in his lifetime. This estimate comes from John Selfridge. I wonder how accurate this. Other sources on the internet put the number of painting at 13,000 or more. Can we come up with an accurate count somewhere, and how certain are we that Selfridge's estimate is correct?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.124.210 (talk • contribs) 16:55, July 28, 2021 (UTC)

Presumably, the ultimate source would be the Zervos catalogue raisonné. The numbers given by Selfridge are roughly consistent with the numbers given in Encyclopedia Btitannica and in this Vanity Fair article, where it is specified that the source is the inventory of Picasso's estate. He had little need to sell his works after the 1920s and still owned most of it. Ewulp (talk) 05:08, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Coldcreation, it is the same image but without the paper wrinkles from the scan. I fail to see the value in including these wrinkles. --Aitorit (talk) 22:44, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Signature Style of Pablo Picasso

I know it is difficult to put a finger on stylistic choices Pablo Picasso adopted in his career. His career is as diverse and worth envying for any artist. Yet I would like to pinpoint that you can recognize Picasso's work due to the signature style he chose. And that style has a laundry list of things: distorted shapes, unrealistic colours, multiple vantage points in a two-dimensional plane of his paintings. No artist is created in isolation. Picasso was a product of his time. He got his influence in art from Matisse, George Braque, and Mayan and African Tribesmen's Art.

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Duggan, W. R., Duggan, W. (2013). Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement. United States: Columbia University Press.

https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Strategic_Intuition/ylGrAgAAQBAJ?hl=en

As If Art Matters. (n.d.). (n.p.): (n.p.). https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/As_If_Art_Matters/aXHG9jhc1HMC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Saunders, W. R., Haas, G. J. (2005). The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars. United States: North Atlantic Books. (please mention why it is not a good source for this edit. It would help me a lot.)

https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Cydonia_Codex/VQTOD5mCXYUC?hl=en&gbpv=0

What are the references we are looking at? Please Guide.