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Pablo Picasso Biography
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1881 |
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Born in Malaga, Spain
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1895 |
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Entered the art academy, La Lonja, Spain
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1900 |
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First exhibition in Barcelona, Spain
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1901 |
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Became co-publisher of the journal Arte Joven
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1901 |
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Beginning of the Blue Period
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1904 |
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Beginning of the Rose period
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1907 |
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Painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
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1912 |
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Created his first collages
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1908 - 1914 |
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Braque and Picasso created and developed Cubism
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1919 |
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Traveled to London to work on El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-cornered Hat), a new Ballets Russes production
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1921 |
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First performance of the ballet Mercure, with sets and costumes by Picasso
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1936 |
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At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Picasso offers his services to the lawful government of the Spanish Republic and was appointed Director of the Prado.
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1936 |
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Met Dora Maar, a photographer linked to the Surrealist movement
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1941 |
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Wrote his first play, El deseo atrapado por la cola (Desire Caught by the Tail)
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1944 |
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Began association with Communist Party
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1960 |
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The Picasso Museum of Barcelona was set up by an agreement in Barcelona City Council, Barcelona, Spain
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1973 |
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Died in Notre Dame de Vie, in Mougins, France
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010 - 2011
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Picasso, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Picasso: Frieden und Freiheit, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
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2010
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Picasso and the Avante-Garde in Paris, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Picasso: Themes and Variations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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2008 - 2009
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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, France
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2008
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Picasso, Auroportrait, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Picasso en la Fotografia, La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Focus: Picasso Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, 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, UK
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2007
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Picasso's Desmoiselles d'Avignon at 10, Museum of Modern Art, 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
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2006
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Picasso Matisse: Prints and Drawings, Andipa gallery, London, UK
Paris - Athens, 1863-1940, National Art Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece
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2005
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Picasso to Pop, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH
American and European Selections, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
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CUBISM AND ITS LEGACY - The Gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso, Museo National del Prado, Madrid, Spain
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2003
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Matisse - Picasso, exhibition opens at Tate Modern and subsequently travels to Paris and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Entre el clavel y la espada: Rafael Alberti en su siglo, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
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1966
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85th birthday and Hommage a Pablo Picasso, Petit-Palais, Paris, France
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1925
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Participates in first Surrealist exhibition, Paris, France
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1912
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Participates in the Blue Rider exhibition, Munich/European tour
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1901
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First exhibition in Paris, at the Vollard Gallery: he exhibits with the Basque painter, Francisco Iturrino, Paris, France
Exhibition of works by Picasso and Casas, Sala Parés, Barcelona, Spain
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1897
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First exhibition, held at the Hostal d’Els Quatre Gats, Barcelona, Spain: the first article on Picasso appears in La Vanguardia
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