Biography:Perhaps the most famous and influential artist of the 20th Century.
Picasso moved to Paris to work from his native Spain. Picasso's long artistic career included many styles, including his early Blue and Rose Periods before developing Cubism with Georges Braque from 1909.
His most famous painting Guernica (1937) depicts an event from the Spanish Civil war and comes from his later Classical Period. Picasso worked with many mediums, including collage, sculpture (The Chicago Picasso), ceramics and prints.
1981-10-24 Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth
1988-11-28 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1997-03-06 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
2007-12-20 Painting "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904)", by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with "O Lavrador de Café", by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari
2015-05-11 Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York
2015-08-13 US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting La Coiffeuse, stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001
2019-03-26 Stolen Pablo Picasso painting "Buste de Femme" (Dora Maar) (1938) recovered after 20 years by Dutch art detective
Quotes by Pablo Picasso
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
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