“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
1881-1884
Pablo Picasso is born on October 25th in Malaga to the painter and teacher Don José Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez Encouraged by his father, Pablo begins painting(1888)
1885-1900
His sister Concepcion dies. Picasso moves to Barcelona and is admitted to the School of Fine Arts of La Lonja in the classical art and still life section, where his father teaches. . Third Exhibition of Fine Arts and Industry in Barcelona, where Picasso shows The First Communion (Museu Picasso, Barcelona). Admission to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. First big artwork: Science and Charity (Museu Picasso, Barcelone)
1901-1905
20 YEARS OLD. Paints The Death of Casagemas (Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris) in homage to his friend who died by suicide Meets Max Jacob. Beginning of the blue period: Self portrait (MP4) Moves to the Bateau-Lavoir studio in Montmartre. Meets André Salmon, Guillaume Apollinaire and Fernande Olivier, his model who then becomes his partner for seven years. Transition from his blue period to his Rose period: The Actor (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Visits the Van Gogh and Seurat retrospective at the Salon of Independents and the Ingres retrospective at the Salon d’Automne. Meets Leo and Gertrude Stein. First artwork cast in bronze : Le fou (Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris)
1906-1915
25 YEARS OLD. Visits the exhibition of Iberian sculptures at the Louvre and is influenced by primitivism, the use of ethnographic clichés and orientalist photographs. Meets Henri Matisse and André Derain. Portrait of Gertrude Stein (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Picasso and Fernande Olivier visit the village of Gosol in Catalonia. Picasso buys his first artwork Portrait of woman (1895) (Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris) by Douanier Rousseau (1844-1910), from a Parisian second-hand dealer in the Rue des Martyrs. Shortly afterwards, he organizes a banquet in honor of the artist and in his presence, an event held at the Bateau-Lavoir with Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, André Salmon, Georges Braque and Gertrude Stein.
1916-1923
35 YEARS OLD. Relationship with Gaby Lespinasse. Meets Serge de Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes. First exhibition of The Young Ladies of Avignon organized by André Salmon. In July, Picasso moves to a studio at 22 rue Victor-Hugo in Montrouge, in the south of Paris. 40 YEARS OLD. Birth of Paul from his union with Olga. From July to October, Picasso stays with Olga and their infant son in a small villa in Fontainebleau, a stone's throw from the château and the park, where he improvises a studio. First monograph devoted to Picasso in Munich. Three Women at the Fountain (MoMA, New York).
1924-1935
Support of the surrealists for the sets of the ballet Mercury.Stays in Monte Carlo with Olga and Paul to see the Ballets Russes. Paints The Dance (Tate Gallery, London). Settles in Juan-les-Pins. Active work with the surrealist group. 45 YEARS OLD. Regular publication of Picasso's works in the magazine "Cahiers d'Art" by Christian Zervos. Series of assemblages of Guitars and The Milliner’s Workshop (Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris). Picasso stops painting and begins writing, especially poems. Separates from Olga, without divorcing her. Birth of Maya, daughter of Marie-Thérèse. Meets Dora Maar.
1936-1945
55 YEARS OLD. Friendship with Paul Eluard. Appointment as head of the Prado Museum in Madrid. Relationship with Dora Maar. Beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Picasso abandons Boisgeloup, promised to Olga, from whom he is separated. Marie-Thérèse and Maya move permanently until 1939 to the studio in the middle of nature at Tremblay-sur-Mauldre (Yvelines). Death of his mother. Guernica is exhibited (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid) in the United States on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso: 40 years of his art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Second World War begins. 60 YEARS OLD. Writes “Desire Caught by the Tail” a play in six acts with illustrations.
1946-1964
65 YEARS OLD. Gradual break with Dora Maar. Picasso moves to a temporary studio in the Château Grimaldi in Antibes. Exhibition "Art and Resistance" at the National Museum of Modern Art and large exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Shooting of the film "Visit to Picasso" by Paul Haesaerts. Picasso moves to the Villa La Galloise, in Vallauris (Alpes-Maritimes). Venice Biennale: first exhibition in Italy. Dove of Peace is chosen by Aragon as the poster for the Paris Peace Congress. Birth of Paloma. Purchase of the Fournas workshops to expand the house in Vallauris. Participation in the second Peace Conference in Great Britain. Lenin Prize for Peace. Series of large sculptures with discarded objects: The Goat (Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris). Start of the Korean War.
1965-1973
Publication of "Living with Picasso" by Françoise Gilot, despite the artist's opposition. Enlargements in concrete engraved by Carl Nesjar of "Luncheon on the Grass" after Manet Refuses the Legion of Honor. Inauguration of the Head of a Woman in Chicago. The mas Notre-Dame de Vie in Mougins becomes his only place of creation. Donation to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona of the early works. Exhibition of recent works at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. The Family (Paris, Musée National Picasso-Paris). Donation of the first metal construction to MoMA, Guitar. Donation of 57 drawings to the Musée Réattu in Arles. Major exhibition at the Louvre for Picasso's 90th birthday Dies at the Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins on April 8. Buried in the garden of the Château de Vauvenargues. Great posthumous exhibition "Pablo Picasso 1970-1972" at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. Donation of Picasso's personal collection to the State.