Pablo Picasso

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
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 does his first collages
1908 - 1914 Braque and Picasso create and develop Cubism
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)
1960 The Picasso Museum of Barcelona is set up by an agreement in Barcelona City Council
1973 dies in his country home, Notre Dame de Vie, in Mougins

Selected Exhibitions

2002 - 2003
'Matisse - Picasso', exhibition which opens at Tate Modern and subsequently travels to Paris and The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1966
85th birthday and ¡°Hommage a Pablo Picasso¡± exhibition at the Petit-Palais in Paris

1925
participates in first Surrealist exhibition in Paris

1912
participates in the ¡°Blue Rider¡± exhibition

1901
exhibition of works by Picasso and Casas at Sala Pares in Barcelona
first exhibition in Paris, at the Vollard Gallery: he exhibits with the Basque painter, Francisco Iturrino

1897
first exhibition, held at the Hostal d¡¯Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona: the first article on Picasso appears in La Vanguardia