There are no related images available at this time.
Biography
1881
Born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, the first child of Jose Ruiz Blasco and his wife, Maria Picasso Lopez
1895
Enters the art academy, La Lonja
1900
Picasso's first exhibition which took place in Barcelona
1901
Becomes co-publisher of the journal Arte Joven
1901
Beginning of the Blue Period
1904
Beginning of the Rose period
1907
Paints Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1912
Creates his first collages
1908 - 1914
Braque and Picasso create and develop Cubism
1918
Marries Olga
1919
Travels to London to work on El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-cornered Hat), a new Ballets Russes production
1921
First performance of the ballet Mercure, with sets and costumes by Picasso
1936
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Picasso offers his services to the lawful government of the Spanish Republic and is appointed Director of the Prado.
1936
Meets Dora Maar, a photographer linked to the Surrealist movement
1937
Paints Guernica
1941
Writes his first play, El deseo atrapado por la cola (Desire Caught by the Tail)
1944
Begins association with Communist Party
1960
The Picasso Museum of Barcelona is set up by an agreement in Barcelona City Council
1973
Dies April 8th in his country home, Notre Dame de Vie, in Mougins
Exhibitions
2010 - 2011
"Picasso", Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich "Picasso: Frieden und Freiheit", Albertina, Vienna
2010
"Picasso and the Avante-Garde in Paris", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA "Picasso: Themes and Variations", MoMA, New York, NY
2008 - 2009
"Pablo Picasso: Graphic works 1904-1905 from the Gallery of Ambroise Vollard in Paris", National Gallery, Prague (solo) "Pablo Picasso - Mosqueteros", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo) "Picasso et les maîtres", Grand Palais, Paris
2008
"Picasso, Auroportrait", Suntory Museum, Osaka (solo) "Picasso en la Fotografia", La Caja Negra, Madrid (solo) "Focus: Picasso Sculpture", MoMA, New York, NY (solo) "Die Erneuerung des Sehens", Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur "Monet to Dali", First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN "Maternity - Images of Motherhood", Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2007
"Picasso's Desmoiselles d'Avignon at 100", MoMA, New York, NY (solo) Chartae, Galleria Tega, Milan "Picasso & Matisse", Andipa Gallery, London "Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War", CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006
"Picasso Matisse: Prints and Drawings", Andipa gallery, London "Paris - Athens, 1863-1940", National Art Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens
2005
"Picasso to Pop", Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH "American and European Selections", Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
2004
CUBISM AND ITS LEGACY - The Gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool "The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso," Museo National del Prado, Madrid
2003
"Matisse - Picasso", exhibition opens at Tate Modern and subsequently travels to Paris and The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Entre el clavel y la espada: Rafael Alberti en su siglo", Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
1966
85th birthday and “Hommage a Pablo Picasso”, Petit-Palais, Paris
1925
Participates in first Surrealist exhibition, Paris
1912
Participates in the “Blue Rider” exhibition, Munich/European tour
1901
First exhibition in Paris, at the Vollard Gallery: he exhibits with the Basque painter, Francisco Iturrino Exhibition of works by Picasso and Casas, Sala Parés, Barcelona
1897
First exhibition, held at the Hostal d’Els Quatre Gats, Barcelona: the first article on Picasso appears in La Vanguardia
