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Pablo Picasso    (Spanish, 1881-1973)

 Pablo Picasso - Tete d'enfant (Paintings) h: 8.1 x w: 8.1 in / h: 20.6 x w: 20.6 cm
Pablo Picasso
Tete d'enfant 1961
 
  

Biography
1881 Born in Malaga, Spain
1895 Entered the art academy, La Lonja, Spain
1900 First exhibition in Barcelona, Spain
1901 Became co-publisher of the journal Arte Joven
1901 Beginning of the Blue Period
1904 Beginning of the Rose period
1907 Painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1912 Created his first collages
1908 - 1914 Braque and Picasso created and developed Cubism
1918 Married Olga
1919 Traveled 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 was appointed Director of the Prado.
1936 Met Dora Maar, a photographer linked to the Surrealist movement
1937 Painted Guernica
1941 Wrote his first play, El deseo atrapado por la cola (Desire Caught by the Tail)
1944 Began association with Communist Party
1960 The Picasso Museum of Barcelona was set up by an agreement in Barcelona City Council, Barcelona, Spain
1973 Died in Notre Dame de Vie, in Mougins, France

Exhibitions
2013 The Essential Robert Indiana - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
From Head to Toe - Hirschwirtscheuer, Künzelsau
Bloomsbury & Beyond - Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England)
picasso - Museum Jorn (former Silkeborg Art Museum), Silkeborg
Picasso: The Vollard Suite - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Family Album - Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga
Francisco Durrio - Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao
Yo Picasso. Self-portraits - Museo Picasso, Barcelona
to Earth. Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst. - Herbert-Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster
The Furnace of the Angels and All'Ambic - MUDAC - Musée de design es d`arts appliques contemporains, Lausanne
Picasso’s Tête de Femme - Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England)
Picasso : les oeuvres en leur terre - Centre d'art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne
L’art en guerre. Francia, 1938–1947: De Picasso a Dubuffet - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–present - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
A Taste for Modernism - Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
La Imagen Especular - Tirar del Hilo - Colección Artium / Sala Sur - ARTIUM - Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz
How We Filled the Vault - MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Pablo Picasso's Woman in the Studio - Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Die Picassos sind da! - Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Pablo Picasso - The Prints and Ceramics - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka
Picasso - Remek-djela Iz Muzeja Picasso, Pariz - Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb
Graphiken Von Pablo Picasso - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
Highlights - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen
British and French Modernism - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Correspondences - ms - Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz
Correspondences - ms2 – Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz
Société Anonyme: Modernism for America - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1913: The Year of Modernism - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Pablo Picasso - Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga
Von Kopf bis Fuß - Porträts und Menschenbilder in der Sammlung Würth - Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
Fenêtres, de la Renaissance à nos jours. Dürer, Monet, Magritte... - Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne
Picasso Black and White - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Becoming Picasso - Courtauld Institute of Art, London (England)
Analysing Cubism - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
1913 Armory Show Revisited - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY
La obra maestra desconocida - Museu d´Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca
Picasso, Matisse, Chagall u.a. – Künstlerplakate aus der Werkstatt Mourlot - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Picasso and Chicago - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Picasso, grabador (1904-1935) - Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca
Tagebuch eines Malers - Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster
2012 Pablo Picasso - Galerie Miro, Prague
Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: Deconstructing La Vie - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Splendour of Line - Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Dusseldorf
Pablo Picasso - Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad
Pablo Picasso - Gagosian Gallery, Geneva
Gravures, lithographies, livres illustrés - Galerie Patrick Cramer, Geneva
Picasso Black and White - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Picasso - Capolavori dal Museo Nazionale Picasso di Parigi - Palazzo Reale, Milan
Góngora/Picasso: Graphic Poetry - Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
Pablo Picasso - Suite Vollard - Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz
The Lewis and Mary Elton Collection - The Bracknell Gallery - South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire (England)
Picasso & Modern British Art - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Picasso, les chemins du Sud - Centre d’art la Malmaison, Cannes
Combas et les céramiques de Picasso à Saint-Tropez - Artisyou, Paris
Exils - Musée national Picasso, La Guerre et La Paix, Vallauris
Picasso – Masterpieces From Musée National Picasso, Paris - Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong, SAR
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
African Influences on Modern Art - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Pablo Picasso - Galerie Heidefeld & Partner, Krefeld
Head of musketeer - Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga
Pablo Picasso - Selected Prints and Ceramics - Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Picasso And Beyond - KM fine Arts, Chicago, IL
Un collage antes del collage - Museo Picasso, Barcelona
Picasso In Chengdu - Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA, Chengdu, Sichuan
Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2011 Picasso, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Picasso: Frieden und Freiheit, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Picasso Prints - Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Picasso 1936. Traces of an Exhibition - Museo Picasso, Barcelona
Picasso: Bullfighting - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Picasso - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Pablo Picasso - Annandale Galleries, Annandale, NSW
Voyage au bout trace - Galerie Boulakia, Paris
Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition - The Frick Collection, New York City, NY
Picasso 1905 in Paris - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
2010 Picasso and the Avante-Garde in Paris, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Picasso: Themes and Variations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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, France
2008 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
2007 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
Late Work, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2006 Picasso Matisse: Prints and Drawings, Andipa gallery, London, UK
Paris - Athens, 1863-1940, National Art Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece
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, UK
The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso, Museo National del Prado, Madrid, Spain
2003 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
1966 85th birthday and Hommage a Pablo Picasso, Petit-Palais, Paris, France
1925 Participates in first Surrealist exhibition, Paris, France
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, Paris, France
Exhibition of works by Picasso and Casas, Sala Parés, Barcelona, Spain
1897 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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