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  Pablo Picasso was born on 25 October 1881
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  Pablo Picasso started drawing and oil painting lessons with his father when he was 7 years old. By the age of nine, he'd finished his first painting.
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  Pablo Picasso attended the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona.
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  Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, famous for paintings like Guernica and for the art movement known as Cubism.
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  Guernica is also one of the world's most famous and moving antiwar statements.
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  Picasso's painting is based on the events of April 27, 1937.
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  His last self portrait is called, somewhat aptly, Self Portrait Facing Death. He drew it with crayon on paper in 1972.
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  He died on 8 April 1973
