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PABLO RUIZ CHRONOLOGY (1881-1973) .

1881, 25th October | Born in Malaga, the first-born son of María Picasso López and José Ruiz Blasco, painter, teacher at the San Telmo School of Fine Arts and curator at the Municipal Museum.

1891-1895 | The Ruiz-Picasso family reside in Corunna where the father won a place as a teacher at the Guarda School of Fine Arts, and where Picasso starts his art studies in 1892.

1895 | Picasso’s first visit to the Prado Museum in Madrid. After spending the summer in Malaga, the Ruiz-Picassos set up home in . He takes the entrance examination for the Llotja School of Fine Arts where he studies for two years.

1897 | He presents at the Fine Arts General Exhibition in Madrid. He begins his studies at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid at his family’s request, but before long leaves the Academy. Frequent visits to the Prado Museum.

1898 | He falls ill with scarlet fever. He returns to Barcelona and moves to Horta d’Ebre (now Horta de Sant Joan (Terra Alta, Tarragona)), on the invitation of his friend Manuel Pallarès. ‘Everything I know I learnt it in the town of Pallarès’, Picasso would say years later.

1899 | He returns to Barcelona and frequents the Quatre Gats tavern, a meeting place for avant-garde art. He shares discussions with , Jaume Sabartés, the Reventós brothers, the Soto brothers, the Cardona brothers and Joan Vidal Ventosa

1900 | First individual exhibition at the Quatre Gats. In September, he makes his first trip to with Carles Casagemas, on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition in Paris where a work by the artist, Last moments, was being shown. He meets Pere Mañach, his first dealer, and has his first contact with the gallery owner Berthe Weill. He returns to Barcelona at the end of December and celebrates New Year in Malaga with Casagemas.

1901 | Move to Madrid. Casagemas commits suicide in Paris. He founds the magazine Arte Joven with Francesc d’Assís Soler which had a print run of 5 editions. He returns to Barcelona and makes a second trip to Paris. From June 25th to July 14th he has his first exhibition in Paris at the Vollard Gallery alongside the Basque painter Francisco Iturrino. He meets the poet . Beginning of the Blue Period.

1902 | Return to Barcelona and third trip to Paris, where he lives and works short of money in Max Jacob’s room.

1903 | Return to Barcelona. He begins his studies for (Life), a masterpiece from the Blue Period, presently housed in the .

1904 | His fourth and final trip to Paris where he moves to in the building known as ‘Bateau-Lavoir’ at 13 Rue de Ravignan. He meets who would become his companion until 1912. He also meets the poets and André Salmon and frequents the Medrano Circus.

1905 | Start of the Rose Period. He spends three weeks during summer at the house of writer Tom Schilperoort in Schoorl (Holland). He meets brother and sister Leo and .

1906 | The Steins introduce him to . A stay in Gósol (Berguedà, Lleida). Return to Paris.

1907 | He creates Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, the starting point for . He meets Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, who is to become his main dealer, and .

1908-1914 | Braque and Picasso develop Cubism.

1909 | He comes to Barcelona with Fernande and spends the summer at Horta de Sant Joan. He returns to Paris and changes address – leaving Bateau-Lavoir and moving to 11 Boulevard Clichy.

1910 | Picasso and Fernande spend a few days in summer in Barcelona and then Cadaqués.

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1911 | In summer, Picasso goes to Céret where he meets with and Manolo Hugué. Braque also moves to Céret. In autumn, he meets Eva Gouel (Marcelle Humbert) who would become his companion.

1912 | He makes his first collages and exhibits at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona. After separating from Fernande, he begins his life with Eva at a new address at 242 Boulevard Raspail.

1913 | His father dies. Brief stay in Barcelona to attend the funeral.

1914 | He spends the summer months in Avignon. Braque and Derain are mobilised by the war which represents the end of Cubism as a movement. He returns to Paris with Eva in October.

1915 | Eva Gouel passes away.

1916 | introduces him to Serge de Diaghilev, director of the Russes who offers him work on the .

1917 | A trip to Italy with Cocteau to work with the . He meets the ballerina . Parade premieres in Paris with the curtain, decoration and wardrobe by Picasso. Trip to Barcelona from June to November.

1918 | Marriage to Olga Khokhlova in Paris. They move to 23 Rue La Boétie. ‘Matisse-Picasso’ exhibition at the Paul Guillaume Gallery in Paris, organised by the dealer Rosenberg.

1919 | Trip to London to prepare The Three-Cornered Hat, the new Ballets Russes production.

1920 | premieres in Paris – the third collaboration with Diaghilev’s company. Joan Miró visits Picasso’s studio for the first time leading to their good friendship.

1921 | His son Paulo is born.

1923 | He meets the poet and critic André Bréton, of the surrealist movement. He spends the summer at Cap d’Antibes.

1924 | The ballet opens in Paris with decoration and wardrobe by Picasso.

1925-1938 | Although not participating directly with , his friendship with writers at the time often involves him in group meetings.

1927 | He meets Marie-Thérèse Walter, who he has a relationship with until 1936 and a daughter, Maya.

1926 | Salvador Dalí visits Picasso on his first trip to Paris. 1928 | His collaboration with Juli González begins, who starts him on metal sculpture.

1931 | He moves to Boisgeloup Castle in Normandy, which he had bought a year earlier, where he sets up his sculpture studio.

1932 | Christian Zervos publishes the first volume of his monumental catalogue of Picasso’s work (32 volumes). The Barcelona Museums of Art buy the Lluís Plandiura Collection containing 22 works by Picasso.

1934 | Summer holidays in Spain: San Sebastián, Madrid, Toledo and Barcelona.

1935 | Separates from Olga and birth of Maya, Picasso’s daughter with Marie-Thérèse Walter. Sabartés becomes his private secretary and his friendship with Paul Éluard begins.

1936 | He sides with the Republicans at the start of the Spanish Civil War. He moves to Mougins and is visited by the Éluards, the Zervos, , Lee Miller, and , a photographer linked to the surrealist movement and who is to become his new companion. Named honorary director of the Prado Museum in Madrid.

1937 | He sets up his studio at 7 Rue des Grands Augustins in Paris. On April 26th, the German air force bombs the town of (Basque Country). From May to June he works on the painting Guernica to be presented at the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris. Trip to Switzerland and a visit to Paul Klee.

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1938 | Death of his mother, María Picasso López, in Barcelona.

1939 | He moves to Royan with Dora Maar and Sabartés. He decides not to return to Spain until the Franco regime ends.

1941 | He writes his first play, Desire Caught by the Tail.

1943 | He meets Françoise Gilot, a young painter who would be his companion for two years and mother to two of his children – Claude and Paloma.

1944 | L’Humanité announces his affiliation to the French Communist Party.

1945 | He begins his studio collaboration with Fernand Mourlot where he explores the creative possibilities of lithography.

1946 | Exhibition at MoMA in New York – ‘Fifty Years of his Art’. Picasso works on the Grimaldi Palace which, years later, would become the Picasso Museum of Antibes.

1947 | Birth of his son Claude by Françoise Gilot. They go to live in Vallauris (Provence), where he begins his pottery work.

1948 | He takes part in the Wroclaw Congress of Intellectuals for Peace (Poland) , giving a speech in favour of Pablo Neruda's release.

1949 | Birth of Paloma, Picasso’s daughter by Françoise Gilot.

1953 | Picasso and Françoise separate. He meets Roque who would become his companion until his death.

1955 | Death of Olga Khokhlova. He purchases La Californie villa in Cannes, where he moves with Jacqueline.

1957 | He paints , which he would donate to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona in 1968.

1958 | He purchases Vauvenargues Castle, near Aix-en-Provence.

1960 | On Picasso’s own volition, Jaume Sabartés, Picasso’s personal friend and secretary, proposes the creation of a museum dedicated to the artist’s work to Barcelona City Council. On July 27th, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona is founded in agreement with Council.

1961 | Picasso and marry in Vallauris and move to Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins.

1962 | Intense engraving work for the next two years.

1963, 9th March | The Museu Picasso in Barcelona opens to the public with the name The Sabartés Collection since, due to Picasso’s opposition to the Franco regime, it is impossible to open a museum with his name. The museum houses the personal collection of Sabartés and the Picasso works owned by the Barcelona Museums of Art.

1968 | Death of Sabartés. Picasso pays homage by giving the Picasso Museum in Barcelona the Blue Portrait of Sabartés and the series of Las Meninas.

1970 | Large donation to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona by the artist himself of over 900 works kept at the home of his family in Barcelona.

1971 | Installation of 8 paintings by Picasso at the Grande Galerie at the Louvre, the first time a living artist’s work is hung at the Louvre.[according to Picasso’s grandson, Olivier Widmaier, in Portraits de famille. Paris, Éditions Ramsay, 2002, p.123]

1973, 8th April | Pablo Ruiz Picasso passes away in Notre-Dame-de-Vie, in Mougins. He is buried in the garden at Vauvenargues Castle on April 10th.

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Highlights Chronology Museu Picasso de Barcelona www.museupicasso.bcn.cat

1895-1896

Man in a Beret Portrait of the Artist’s Mother Portrait of the Artist’s Father Portrait La Coruña, 1895 Barcelona, 1896 Barcelona, 1896 Barcelona, 1896 Oil on canvas Watercolour on paper Watercolour on paper Oil on canvas 50,5 x 36 cm 49,8 x 39 cm 25,5 x 17,8 cm 32,7 x 23,6 cm MPB 110.058 MPB 110.016 MPB 110.331 MPB 110.076

1896-1898

Mountain Landscape Portrait of Aunt Pepa Science and Charity Quiquet’s Farmhouse Malaga, juny-juliol 1896 Malaga Barcelona, 1897 Horta de Sant Joan Oil on canvas juny-juliol 1896 Oil on canvas 1898 60,7 x 82,5 cm Oil on canvas 197 x 249,5 cm Oil on canvas MPB 110.008 57,5 x 50,5 cm MPB 110.046 27 x 40 cm MPB 110.010 MPB 110.066

1899-1900

Portrait of the writer Ramon Reventós “Decadent Poet” Riera de Sant Joan Street, from the Barcelona, 1899-1900 Barcelona, 1900 window in the artist’s studio Watercolour, charcoal and Conté Charcoal and Barcelona, 1900 pencil on paper Watercolour on paper Oil on wood 66,5 x 30,1 cm 48 x 32 cm 22,3 x 13,8 cm MPB 110.872 MPB 70.232 MPB 110.213

1899-1900

The divan The Embrace Fairground Stall Barcelona, cap al 1899 Paris, 1900 Paris, 1900 Charcoal, pastel and coloured crayons on glazed paper Pastel on paper Oil on canvas 26,2 x 29,7 cm 59 x 35 cm 38,1 x 46,3 cm MPB 4.267 MPB 4.263 MPB 113.113

1901

End of the Number Still Life The Wait (Margot) Woman with Bonnet Paris, 1901 Paris, 1901 Paris, 1901 Paris, 1901 Pastel on canvas Oil on canvas Oil on board Oil on canvas 72 x 46 cm 60 x 80 cm 69,5 x 57 cm 41 x 33 cm MPB 4.270 MPB 4.273 MPB 4.271 MPB 112.750

1903-1905

Roofs of Barcelona Motherhood The Madman The Frugal Meal Portrait of Señora Canals Barcelona, 1903 Barcelona, 1903 Barcelona, 1904 Paris, 1904 Paris, 1905 Oil on canvas Pastel and charcoal on paper Watercolour on paper Etching and scraping Oil and charcoal on canvas 69 x 108,5 cm 46 x 40 cm 85 x 35 cm on zinc 88 x 68 cm MPB 112.943 MPB 4.269 MPB 4.272 61,4 x 44,3 cm MPB 4.266 MPB 110.011

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Highlights Chronology Museu Picasso de Barcelona www.museupicasso.bcn.cat

1906-1917

Woman’s Head Fernande The Offering Harlequin Gored Horse Paris, 1906 Paris, 1908 Barcelona, 1917 Barcelona, 1917 Bronze Gouache on cardboard Oil on canvas Graphite pencil on 35,7 x 24,8 x 24,4 cm paper with white primer 116 x 90 cm canvas with ochre primer MPB 113.035 30,8 x 31,1 cm MPB 10.941 80,2 x 103,3 cm MPB 112.761 MPB 110.012

1917-1924

The passeig de Colom Blanquita Suárez Glass and Tobacco Packet Barcelona, 1917 Barcelona, 1917 Paris, 1924 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 40,1 x 32 cm 73,3 x 47 cm 16 x 22 cm MPB 110.028 MPB 110.013 MPB 70.243

19571935-1939

Minotauromachy Portrait of Jaume Sabartés with ruff and cap 1935 Royan, 1939 Etching and scraping Oil on canvas 49,8 x 69,3 cm 46 x 38 cm MPB 45.006 MPB 70.241

1957

Las Meninas (group) Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) The Pigeons Canes, 1957 Canes, 1957 Canes, 1957 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 194 x 260 cm 100 x 81 cm 100 x 80 cm MPB 70.433 MPB 70.459 MPB 70.450

1957-1969

Spanish Platter “Bullfighting scene with fish” The Bullfight Game Painter Working Canes, 1957 1957 Mougins, 1965 Red clay and white clay Sugar Aquatint Oil and ripolin on canvas 42 cm (diameter) 20 x 30 cm 100 x 81 cm MPB 112.446 MPB 112.775 MPB 70.810

1969

Seated Man 1969 Oil on cardboard 129 x 65 cm MPB 112.867

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