Human Accomplishment: Pablo Picasso

a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement

Born

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso 25 October 1881 Málaga, Spain

Died

8 April 1973 (aged 91) Mougins, France

Nationality

Spanish

Known for

Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing

Spouse(s)

Olga Khokhlova ( m. 1918; died 1955) Jacqueline Roque ( m. 1961)

adultbasic

France

Children

Paulo Picasso Maya Widmaier-Picasso Claude Picasso Paloma Picasso

Education

José Ruiz y Blasco (father) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

era

1800+

Family

Marina Picasso (granddaughter) Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (grandson)

Movement

Cubism, Surrealism

Notable work

La Vie (1903) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) Girl before a Mirror (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Guernica (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937)

Partner(s)

Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927–1935) Dora Maar (1935–1943) Françoise Gilot (1943–1953)

Patron(s)

Sergei Shchukin

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