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Birth
Born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso's gargantuan full name, which honors a variety of relatives and saints, is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. -
Self Portrait
Throughout his long career he painted various likenesses of himself that reveal his progress in life and art. This Self-Portrait, painted during his second stay in Paris in the winter of 1901, was the end of a series and marked the beginning of the Blue Period. -
Olga
In 1935, Olga learned of Picassós affair, and also was noified Jaqueline was pregnant. Olga took Paulo, moved to the South of France, and filed for divorce. Picasso refused to divide his property so Olga stayed legally married to him until her death. -
Le Tricorne
Pablo and Olga went to London for the performance of Le Tricorne, for which Picasso again had designed costumes and stage on Diaghilev's wish. The ballet was also performed at the Alhambra in Spain, and was a great success at the Paris Opera in 1919. -
Paulo is Born
Picassoś son is born to Olga. -
Guernica
Probably Picasso's most famous work, Guernica is his most powerful political statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual bombing practice on the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. -
The Weeping Woman
The Weeping Woman series is regarded as a continuation of the tragedy depicted in Picasso's epic painting Guernica. In focusing on the image of a woman crying, the artist was no longer painting the effects of the Spanish Civil War directly, but rather referring to a singular universal image of suffering. -
Marriage to Jaqueline Vallauris
Pablo Picasso met Jacqueline in 1953 at the pottery when she was 26 years old and he was 72. He romanced her by drawing a dove on her house in chalk and bringing her one rose a day until she agreed to date him six months later. In 1955, when Picasso's first wife Olga Khokhlova died, he was free to marry. They married in Vallauris on 2 March 1961. -
Death
Pablo Picasso continued to create art and maintain an ambitious schedule in his later years, superstitiously believing that work would keep him alive. He died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91, in Mougins, France.
