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Pablo Picasso September 2015 18 September - 18 October 2015
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2015 marks the 50th Anniversary of Singapore’s independence, and such a substantial milestone calls for an exhibition of equal merit. It is with this in mind that we are proud to showcase one of the most illustrious names in 20th century art: Pablo Picasso.
Heralded as one of the biggest names of Modern Art and one of the pioneers of Cubism, Picasso dramatically changed the landscape of his contemporary art scene. Excelling in various mediums and movements, Picasso strived to cast aside conventional ideals, driving forward and exploring new limits all the while establishing himself as one of the most important figures within the art world. 3
We are pleased to present to you these prestigious works by the world’s most illustrious and recognizable Modern artist, in an intimate setting for collectors and appreciators alike.
Gilles Dyan Stéphane Le Pelletier Founder and Chairman Director Opera Gallery Group Opera Gallery Asia Pacific Researching an illustrious figure such as Picasso is bound to elicit an array of polarizing definitions. The life of Pablo Picasso began in Málaga, Spain on October 25th in 1881. Not a particularly bright ‘Genius’, surely, is one that repeats itself often, ‘visionary’ another. Tormented, manipulative, student academically, at the age of eight Pablo was already displaying signs of artistic aptitude, a misanthropic – also phrases that pepper history’s perception of the persona, a man whose namesake talent his artistic parents recognized and encouraged. Moving to Barcelona after the tragic death of ensued the archetypical illustration of the Modern artist. Saturated in superlatives (not to mention his younger sister, Picasso was accepted into a local art school where he quickly excelled, graduating history-making auction prices), Picasso’s legacy has been morphing steadily and consistently since by the age of 14 to the advanced courses. He enrolled a couple years later in the prestigious Royal his death in 1973. Separated from his public voice, the Picasso we experience today – assembled Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, but soon after stopped attending classes and began instead through his works, fragmented epithets, ex-lovers and surviving family – is an absorbing yet fabricated to develop an art language independent from the traditional teachings at the institution. A flaneur figure that whets our intrigue into the psyche of the eccentric man. Lionized for his creativity, the drawn to the subversive, Picasso’s early works depicted the prostitutes, beggars and gypsies he 4 revelatory individual that was Pablo Picasso presented a vision of carnality and contradiction, raw would come across in his long walks cutting class, and by 1899 the young artist had fallen out with 5 originality and available brilliance to a society fascinated as much with the human mind as with the traditional methods and into a crowd of vagabond artists and intellectuals in Barcelona. art it produced. Beyond his obvious contributions to the history of art, Picasso was and remains an art world rock star – a rebellious, paradoxical, emphatic communicator whose life and works Moving to Paris at the turn of the 20th century marked a significant period in Picasso’s career. Young demand to be deciphered. and isolated, the works produced in his first three years in Paris are characterized by scenes of misery and isolated torment painted primarily in shades of blue and green. Deeply depressed following the ‘It takes a long time to become young’, mused an 85-year-old Picasso to a journalist in Cannes in 1966 suicide of his close friend, Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’ marked a profoundly melancholy psychological who asked him to explain the transition from the somberness of his early painting to the exuberance state in the artist’s life, while his cheerless paintings inspired little affection in potential buyers. of his later work. Perhaps best-known for his contribution to the birth of Cubism together with Settling in Montmartre in 1904 with the beautiful Fernande Olivier, Picasso gradually emerged Georges Braque - that heroic collaboration that introduced the first truly modern movement in art from his psychological abyss and began painting in lively, vivid hues of reds and pinks, a period in 1907– Picasso’s iconic status was enhanced with each passing decade, a motif of modern art that known as the ‘Rose Period’ that is believed to have culminated in the creation of the proto-Cubism obliterated convention and scrutinized the nuances of change through metamorphoses and repetition. masterpiece, The Ladies of Avignon. Stunningly prolific (13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 ceramics and sculptures have been attributed to his name over the course of a 75-year career), Honing in on particular pieces from Picasso’s oeuvre would do well to elucidate periods of Picasso’s oeuvre delineates the inner workings of a figure consumed by visual stimuli and external personal and professional growth, however reductionary: the chilling, distorted prostitutes of the attention, carefully documenting a lifetime that he knew would transcend his living self. aforementioned The Ladies of Avignon as a precursor to Analytical Cubism; the 1921 Ladies at the Spring that marked a brief yet somber return to Classical Realism; the momentous anguish and and physical experience, from ambiguity to definition; love to lasciviousness; political freedom to terror of war captured in the 1937 Guernica, a work that remains one of the most potent anti- financial greed. Unapologetically himself, Picasso’s fame, publicly tumultuous love affairs and quote- war paintings in history and revealed a political zealousness that defined much of Picasso’s work worthy ‘Picassoisms’ may have overshadowed the art he produced later in his life, during a time and persona in the years following World War II. Despite these transitions – some so varied they when Surrealism and Post-Expressionism – influenced by his own Cubism – dominated the fine art could have been the product of numerous masterful artists rather than just one – there exists an conversation. Having proven himself a master, Picasso’s later works recall the raw honesty of his inscrutable stealth at the centre of Picasso’s artistic identity that counters his increasing fame. ‘Blue Period’, a reminder to both himself and the public of his first and foremost love of making art. Already the world’s most famous living artist, Picasso’s post-war works take a turn away from the creation of single masterpieces into the varying motif of creation itself, a curious shift into the realm Gili Karev 6 7 of the naïve, demonstrated through crude, childlike imagery that strikingly contrasted with the Curator technical complexity of the Realism, Cubism and Surrealism that marked the previous forty years of creation.
Painting with phenomenal speed in simplified forms, Picasso’s later years are characterized with a rapid, almost desperate rate of creation whereby the act of painting seems to transcend the artwork itself. Having proven himself a master of form and technique, these later pieces, made with a range of watercolours, felt-tip pens and coloured wax crayons, convey a dramatic reduction of form into purely compositional ideas, teasing concepts of productivity and repetition through a deeply humanist lens of wisdom and fear.
In the spirit of singling out masterpieces, Picasso’s Self Portrait Facing Death, made with pencil and crayon the year before his death at age 91, epitomizes the artist’s focus at this stage in his life, serving as a stunning look into the cryptic eye of this loved and loathed modern genius. A scrupulous evaluator of medium and technique to achieve his desired emotion, Picasso’s penchant for style diversity speaks to a singular devotion to capturing the girth of human emotional Nature morte au bougeoir et à la cruche, 29 January 1937
Dated ‘29-1-37’ (lower left) Oil on canvas 38.1 x 46 cm - 15 x 18.1 in. Price on request
8 Provenance Estate of the artist E. V. Thaw, New York Vivian Horan, New York
Exhibited Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Picasso, 3 Oct. 2002-2 Feb. 2003
Literature Picasso, 1901-1971, Galerie Claude Bernard, 1980, No. 15, ill. in colour Edward Quinn, Pierre Daix, The Private Picasso, 1987, ill. p. 151 and 159 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. Spanish Civil War 1937-1939, San Francisco 1997, No. 37-023 (a), ill. p. 11
Certificate Claude Ruiz-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work Tête de femme, 1 May 1944
Signed ‘Picasso’ (lower right) Oil on canvas 46 x 33 cm - 18.1 x 13 in. Price on request
10 Provenance Galerie Louis Carré, Paris Diego della Valle, Milan Sale: Sotheby’s, London, 26 March 1985, lot 51 Private collection Sale: Franco Semanzato, Milan, 16 December 1998, lot 240 Carlo Corbelli, Brescia Private collection
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 13 : œuvres de 1943 et de 1944, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 2013, No. 268, ill. p. 132 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, 1940-1944, No. 44-060, ill. p. 336
Certificate Claude Ruiz-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work Nature morte, 13 July 1945
Signed Picasso (upper right) and dated ‘13 juillet 45’ (on the reverse) Oil on canvas 64.5 x 100 cm - 25.4 x 39.4 in. Price on request
12 Provenance Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris Galerie Beyeler, Basel Jane Wade, New York (acquired from the above, 1969) Sale: Christie’s, London, 30 November 1976, lot 69 Private collection, Europe
Exhibited Culan, France, Château de Culan, Exposition Picasso, 1967, No. 28 Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso - Werke von 1932-1965, 1967, No. 27, ill. in colour Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Picasso - Das Spätwerk, 1968, No. 4, ill. in colour
Literature Galerie Beyeler (ed.), Picasso, Basel, 1968, No. 72, ill. p. 107 Klaus Gallwitz, Picasso laureatus, Lucerne, 1971, No. 24, ill. p. 37
Certificate Claude-Ruiz Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work Composition, 8 October 1948
Signed ‘Picasso’ and dated ‘8.10.48’ (upper left) Oil on board 30 x 40 cm - 11.8 x 15.7 in. Price on request
14 Provenance William Drown Ltd., London Sale: Sotheby’s, London, 7 July 1971, lot 43 Private collection (acquired at the above sale) Galerie Ile de France, Paris Galleria Gissi, Turin Galleria Seno, Milan Private collection, Italy (acquired from the above, 1980s)
Exhibited Turin, Galleria Gissi, Collettiva di Maggio 1980, 1980
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 15 : œuvres de 1946 à 1953, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1965, No. 80, ill. p. 48 Picasso, The Mediterranean Years, 1945-1962, Gagosian Gallery, London, 2010, ill. p. 62 (listed with incorrect dimensions) Broc et verre, 16-17 April 1959
Signed ‘Picasso’ (upper right), dated and numbered ‘V.16.17.4.59.I’ (on the reverse) Oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm - 36.2 x 28.7 in. Price on request
16 Provenance Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris Galleria Seno, Milan Private collection, Italy (1980)
Exhibited Barcelona, Sala Gaspar, 1960 Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso, Peintures, Vauvenargues 1959-1961, 1962, No. 11
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 18 : œuvres de 1958 à 1959, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1967, No. 442, ill. p. 130 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Fifties II, 1956-1959, San Francisco, 2000, No. 59-136, ill. p. 315 Tête de faune, 24 January 1956
Signed, numbered and dated ‘Picasso 24.1.56.XI’ (on the reverse) Partially glazed ceramic tile, unique piece 20.5 x 20.5 cm - 8.1 x 8.1 in. Price on request
20 Literature Georges Ramié, Céramique de Picasso, éditions Cercle d’Art, Paris, 1974, No. 321, ill. p. 150
Certificate Alain Ramié has confirmed the authenticity of this work Tête de faune, 14 April 1958
Signed and dated ‘Picasso 14.4.58.’ (lower right) Coloured wax crayons on paper 32.8 x 25.7 cm - 12.9 x 10.1 in. Price on request
22 Provenance Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris Spiro Skyrus, Los Angeles Private collection (acquired from the above, 1975)
Certificate Claude Ruiz-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work Nu debout et trois têtes d’hommes, 4-5 February 1969
Signed, dated and numbered ‘Picasso 4.2.69 V 5.2.69’ (upper left) Coloured wax crayons on paper 44 x 31 cm - 17.3 x 12.2 in. Price on request
24 Provenance Sale: Christie’s, London, 30 June 1981, lot 173 Waddington Galleries, London Michelle Rosenfeld, New York Wolf Schulz Gallery, San Francisco Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 10 May 1989, lot 241 Kunsthandel Frans Jacobs, Amsterdam Private collection, Amsterdam Sale: Christie’s, London, 9 December 1999, lot 595 Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
Exhibited Montreal, Landau Fine Art, Picasso and Léger, November-December 1991, No. 45
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 31 : œuvres de 1969, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1976, No. 54, ill. pl. 16 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, No. 69-052 ill. p. 103 Buste d’homme et femme nus, 2 June 1969
Signed and dated ‘Picasso 2.6.69.’ (lower right) Coloured wax crayons on paper 50.5 x 65 cm - 19.9 x 25.6 in. Price on request
26 Provenance Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris R.S. Johnson International Gallery, Chicago Private collection (acquired from the above, fall 1971; thence by descent)
Exhibited Chicago, R.S. Johnson International Gallery, Picasso, 20 Drawings, 1967-1971, fall 1971, p. 23, No. 6 (ill. titled Man and Woman)
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 31 : œuvres de 1969, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1976, No. 227, ill. p. 70 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, No. 69-230 (ill. with incorrect medium), p. 170 Fleurs, 3 May 1961
Signed, dated and dedicated ‘Pour Georges Picasso le 3.5.61.’ (lower right) Coloured wax crayons on toned paper 41.9 x 27.3 cm - 16.5 x 10.7 in. Price on request
28 Provenance Private collection (gift from the artist) Sale: Christie’s, London, 20 December 2006, lot 258 Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
Certificate Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work Claude Ruiz-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work Maternité, circa 1899
Pastel on paper 47.8 x 40 cm - 18.8 x 15.7 in. Price on request
30 Provenance Yul Brynner collection (1970) Private collection Sale: Sotheby’s, 14 May 1997, lot 200 Private collection, Monaco
Literature Alan Wofsy Fine Arts LLC Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawing and Sculptures, Youth in Spain II, 1897 - 1900 (titled ‘Nourrice allaitant un enfant dans un parc’)
Certificate Pablo Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work and dedicated it to Yul Brynner Saltimbanque et jeune fille, 1905
Signed ‘Picasso’ (lower left) Watercolour and charcoal on paper laid on card 29 x 18.5 cm - 11.4 x 7.3 in. Price on request
32 Provenance Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, (No. 1736) Justin K. Thannhauser, Munich, Berlin, Paris, New York and Bern (No. 40164) Mrs. Justin K. Thannhauser, Bern Sale: Christie’s, New York, Nov. 1998
Exhibited Bern Kunst Museum, Sammlung Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978, No. 31, p. 110, ill. p. 70 Washington DC, the National Gallery of Art, Picasso, Saltimbanques, 1980-1981 Barcelona, Museo Picasso Bern Kunst Museum, Picasso 1905-06, From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gosol, 1992, No. 213, ill. p. 350 Munich Haus des Kunst: Pierrot Melancolie and Maske, 1995, No. 59, ill. p. 136
Literature Christian Zervos, Picasso, vol. 6 : supplément aux vol. 1 à 5, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1954, No. 697, ill. p. 85 Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, The Blue and Rose Periods: a Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, 1900-1906, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1967, DXRII, 1ç, ill. p. 271 Pierre Daix, Tout l’œuvre peint de Picasso, périodes bleue et rose, Paris, 1968, No. 188, ill. p. 102 Corrida Toros, 3 March 1951
Signed and dedicated ‘Para Andrés Castel de vas amigo, Picasso’ (lower right), inscribed and dated ‘Vallauris le 3.3.58’ (lower left) Brush and ink on paper 21 x 27 cm - 8.2 x 10.6 in. Price on request
34 Provenance Andrés Castel (gift from the artist, March 1951) Private collection (acquired from the above) Sale: Sotheby’s, London, 25 June 2009, Lot 155 Private collection, Spain (acquired at the above sale)
Exhibited Prague Municipal House, Tauromaquia - Face to Face with the Bull, 12/09/2011 - 04/09/2012 Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland, Picasso/Dalí/Goya - Tauromachia, The Bullfight, July 2014 - November 2014
Literature Tauromaquia - Picasso, Dalí, Goya, Filla, Capek, Carlo Cambi Editore, 2012
Certificate Claude-Ruiz Picasso and Maya Widmaier-Picasso have confirmed the authenticity of this work Quatre personnages, 2 October 1968
Signed, dated and numbered ‘2.10.68. IV Picasso’ (centre left) Pen and India ink on paper 50 x 65.5 cm - 19.7 x 25.8 in. Price on request
36 Provenance Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris Herman C. Goldsmith, New York Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York Evelyn Aimis Fine Art, Miami (acquired from the above) Private collection (acquired from the above, 1989) Sale: Christie’s, London, 10 Feb. 2005, lot 687 Private collection
Exhibited New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Picasso, The Late Drawings, Jan. - Feb. 1988, No. 21, ill.
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 27 : œuvres de 1967 et 1968, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1973, No. 318, ill. p. 122 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculptures: The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, No. 68-158, ill. p. 47 Musicienne et nu assis, 30 January 1968
Signed, dated and numbered ‘Picasso 30.1.68 V’ (lower right) Pencil on paper 30 x 48 cm - 11.8 x 18.9 in. Price on request
38 Provenance Sale: Christie’s, New York, 16 May 1985, lot 213 Private collection (aquired at the above sale) Sale: Christie’s, London, 7 Feb. 2002, lot 413 Private collection, UK (aquired at the above sale)
Literature René Char & Charles Feld, Picasso, Les Dessins du 27.3.66 au 15.3.68, Paris, 1969, No. 356, ill. n.pag. (listed with incorrect dimensions) Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 27 : œuvres de 1967 et 1968, éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1973, No. 225, ill. p. 88 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, No. 68-039, ill. p. 11 Le Bain, 27 January 1968
Signed, dated and numbered ‘Picasso 27.1.68.VI’ (lower right) Pencil on paper 24 x 29.5 cm - 9.4 x 11.6 in. Price on request
40 Provenance Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris Saidenberg Gallery, New York Mena W. Rosenthal, New York Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 17 May 1990, lot 213 Saidenberg Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale) Bali Miller, New York Peter B. Lewis collection (aquired from the above, 19 March 1998)
Literature Charles Feld, Picasso, His Recent Drawings, 1966-1968, New York, 1969, No. 346, ill. n.p. Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 27 : œuvres de 1967 et 1968, éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1973, No. 201, ill. p. 77 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, No. 68-029, ill. p. 9 Deux personnages et tête, 26 February 1969
Signed and dated ‘Picasso 26.2.69.’ (upper right) Blue felt-tip pen on toned paper 31 x 44 cm - 12.2 x 17.3 in. Price on request
42 Provenance Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London Private collection (circa 1975)
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 31 : œuvres de 1969, éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1976, No. 79, ill. p. 26 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, No. 69-079 ill. p. 113
Certificate Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. (The Lefevre Gallery) have confirmed the authenticity of this work Nu debout et homme tenant un verre, 6 August 1972
Signed, numbered and dated ‘Dimanche 6 août 1972.I Picasso’ (lower left) Ink on paper 35.5 x 42 cm - 14 x 16.5 in. Price on request
44 Provenance Galerie Taménaga, Paris
Exhibited Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, 172 Dessins en noir et en couleurs, 1972, No. 155
Literature Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 33 : œuvres de 1971-1972, Éditions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1978, No. 492, ill. p. 168 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Final Years 1970-1973, San Francisco, 2004, No. 72-232, ill. p. 340 Le Peintre et sa toile, 5 July 1964
Signed Picasso (lower right) and dated ‘5.7.64’ (upper right) Gouache and brush and ink over rincé linoleum cut print on paper 62.3 x 75 cm - 24.5 x 29.5 in. Price on request
46 Provenance Private collection, Tokyo Private collection (acquired from the above, 2013)
Literature Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1959-1965, Bern, 1986, No. 1355, another version ill. p. 533 The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Complete Linoleum Cuts 1939-1968, San Francisco, 2012, No. L-181, ill. of other versions pp. 236-37 Centaure et bacchante avec un faune, 2 Febuary 1947
Signed ‘Picasso’ in blue pencil, dated and numbered ‘2.2.47. 28/50’ (lower right) Lithograph on Arches, edition of 50 + 5 AP 49 x 64 cm - 19.3 x 25.2 in. Price on request
48 Literature Georges Bloch, Picasso : Catalogue de l’œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1904-1967, Tome 1, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, Berne, 1968, No. 417, ill. p. 116 50 ‘It takes a long time to become young’
David Mach, Portrait of Picasso, 2010 Courtesy of the artist Biography
1881 October 25th: Birth of Pablo Picasso in Malaga, Spain. 1907 With Braque, the artist produces paintings that will be called ‘cubistic’. His father, Don José Ruiz Blasco, is an art teacher. 1908 January 24th: André Level buys La Famille des saltimbanques for 1,000 French francs. 1884 December 20th: Birth of Pablo’s first sister, Dolores, called Lola. 1909 Fall: Leaves the Bateau-Lavoir for a new studio located at 11, boulevard de Clichy. 1885 October 30th: Birth of Pablo’s second sister, Conchita. First fragmented sculpture: Tête de Fernande. 1891 The family moves to Corona. 1910 Summer at Cadaques. Fall: Returns to Paris. Finishes portraits of Vollard and Kahnweiler, the latter becomes his main broker. 1894 The artist’s very first oil portraits of his family, signed ‘P. Ruiz’. 1911 Summer: Picasso leaves alone for Céret. 1895 Discovers Madrid and Barcelona. His first works of Analytic Cubism. 1896 Moves to Barcelona. Studies at the School of Fine Arts. Begins a love-affair with Eva Gouel. Paints Ma Jolie. The death of his sister Conchita will mark Pablo for the rest of his life. 1912 Mid-January: Starts up a new studio at the Bateau-Lavoir. 1898 Spends the summer at Horta de Ebro with his friend Pallares. Mai 18th: He leaves secretly with Eva for Céret, then on to Avignon and Sorgues where he paints his first ‘Arlésienne’ (Woman from Arles) cubism portrait. 1899 Returns to Barcelona where he meets painters who will remain his friends for the rest of his September 23rd: Moves in with Eva, at 242 boulevard Raspail near Montparnasse. life. He is adopted by the intellectual circle of the Café ‘Els Quatre Gats’. 1913 Paints a portrait of Apollinaire for publication in his collection of poems: Alcools. 1900 Moves to the old sector of Barcelona. October - December: His first trip to Paris with his friend Casagemas. 1914 Braque and Derain are drafted in the War. 52 Christmas in Malaga. Picasso, being Spanish (a neutral country) is not called. He accompanies them to the 53 Avignon train station. 1901 End January: Picasso travels to Madrid. Casagemas commits suicide; Picasso paints La Mort de Casagemas. 1915 Braque is seriously wounded and has to undergo trepanation. April: He exhibits his work in Barcelona but does not attend the opening ceremony, preferring December 14th: Death of Eva Gouel, Picasso is beyond depression. to travel to Paris to prepare for his first show at Gallery Vollard. The musician Edgard Varèse introduces him to Jean Cocteau. Meets Max Jacob. 1916 February 17th: Picasso travels to Rome with Cocteau. September 9th: Death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Picasso is very affected, feeling like the March 17th: Apollinaire suffers a wound to the head. heir to the famous deceased painter. May: Cocteau introduces Picasso to Diaghilev, a producer of the Russian Ballets. Together they He definitively adopts the name Picasso. produce the Parade Ballet; Picasso designs the set and costumes. Beginning of his Blue Period. July: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon shown at the Salon d’Antin. 1902 Early: Returns to Barcelona where he continues to paint. Meets Stravinsky and Olga Khokhlova, a star ballerina, the artist falls in love. Returns to Paris in the winter to reunite with Max Jacob. End November: Returns to Paris. Moves into the Hôtel Lutetia with Olga. 1903 Returns to Barcelona. 1918 July 12th: Marries Olga at the Russian Church in Paris. Picasso starts one of his most famous pieces from the Blue Period: La Vie. November 9th: Death of Apollinaire. End November: Picasso moves with Olga to 23, bis rue de la Boétie. 1904 Spring: Establishes permanent residence in Paris. June: Moves into the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre. 1919 May: Leaves for London to work on Diaghilev’s ballet. First encounters with Fernande Olivier, who becomes his model and companion for seven years. Beginning of his ‘return to order’. Fall: Meets Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon. 1921 February 4th: Birth of Paulo. Picasso turns 40 in October. 1905 Beginning of his Pink Period. 1922 Summer in Dinard. Paints Deux femmes courant sur la plage. Les Saltimbanques exhibition. Designs the set for Cocteau’s Antigone. Paints Gertrude Stein’s portrait. 1924 Designs the set and costumes for the ballet Mercure. 1906 His Parisian broker, Ambroise Vollard, buys his entire studio for 2,000 French francs. Meets Matisse at the Manet-Redon exhibition at the Durand-Ruel Gallery. 1925 Aggressive compositions. October: First attempts at Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. à 1926 Summer in Juan-les-Pins. First publication in Cahiers d’Art by Christian Zervos. 1907 Summer: D.H. Kahnweiler visits Picasso’s studio at the Bateau-Lavoir. Vollard again buys his entire studio for 2,500 French francs (not including Les Demoiselles 1927 January: Meets Marie-Thérèse Walter who is seventeen years old. Falls head over eals in love d’Avignon). with her. Sexually aggressive themes. Apollinaire introduces Georges Braque to Picasso. 1928 Prepares sculptures using wire. 1929 Summers at Dinard. 1948 Moves with Françoise Gilot to Vallauris. 1930 June: Buys the Château de Boisgeloup. 1949 April 19th: Birth of Paloma Picasso. Fall: Secretly moves Marie-Thérèse into a flat at 44, rue de La Boétie. New season of sculptures. Picasso paints La Colombe de la paix. 1931 May: Moves permanently to Boisgeloup. 1949 Produces the panels for War and Peace. 1932 Produces large sculpted heads of Marie-Thérèse. à 1951 Major Picasso retrospective in Japan marking his 70th birthday. First use of the Minotaur in his works. 1952 Death of Paul Eluard. 1934 Summer: Travels to Spain. Paints a series of Bull Fights. 1953 Françoise Gilot leaves for Paris with the children. 1935 Marie-Thérèse is pregnant with Maya. Separation from Olga. 1954 Portraits of Sylvette David. Stops painting until 1937. Meets Jacqueline Roque who works at Madoura’s. Beginning of the season of variations on Femmes d’Alger by Delacroix. 1936 Picasso retrospective in Barcelona. July: War breaks out in Spain. 1955 February 1st: Death of Olga. Picasso appointed Director of the Prado Museum in Madrid. Picasso buys the Villa La Californie in Cannes. Meets the Yugoslav photographer Dora Maar. Moves in with Jacqueline. Starts his work on Les Ménines by Velázquez. 1937 April 26th: The city of Guernica is bombed. 54 Dora Maar finds the studio at Grands-Augustins so that Picasso can paint Guernica. 1958 September: Buys the Château de Vauvenargues at the foot of Mount Saint-Victoire, 55 Mid-June: Guernica showed at the Spanish Pavilion at the World Fair in Paris. so dear to Cézanne. Summer in Mougins with the Eluard couple. Paints several ‘Arlesian’ portraits of Jacqueline. He paints Lee Miller in Arlesian style on several occasions. 1959 First trips to Vauvenargues. October-December: Paints La Femme qui pleure. 1960 Retrospectives at the Tate Gallery in London. 1938 Paints women’s faces that are more and more distorted. 1961 Picasso marries Jacqueline Roque in Vallauris and moves to Mougins. 1939 Moves to Royan after the beginning of World War II. 1963 Opening of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. 1940 April 3rd: Picasso files for French citizenship. October 11th: Death of Jean Cocteau. Mid-May: Beginning of France’s problems with Germany. June 14th: Paris falls to the Germans. 1964 January 11th: Retrospective in Toronto, then Tokyo. August 25th: Returns to his Grands-Augustins studio with Dora Maar. 1965 November: The artist undergoes surgery for a stomach ulcer at the American Hospital in Marie-Thérèse and Maya remain in Royan. Neuilly, near Paris. 1941 January: Picasso writes a surrealistic piece, Le Désir attrapé par la queue. 1966 Tribute to Picasso at the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, Paris.
à 1942 Picasso is evicted from his Grands-Augustins studio. 1943 Sculpture of L’Homme au mouton in bronze. 1967 Picasso refuses the Legion of Honour. May: Meets Françoise Gilot. 1968 February 13th: Death of Sabartés, his secretary and friend. 1944 Max Jacob dies in the Drancy concentration camp. August: Paris is liberated. 1970 May 1st: 167 paintings are exposed at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, by Christian and Picasso participates for the first time in the Salon d’Automne with 74 paintings and six Yvonne Zervos. sculptures. 1968 Very prolific period. 1945 Composes Le Charnier. à 1972 Buys a house in Ménerbes that he gives to Dora Maar. 1973 April 8th: Picasso dies in Mougins. 1946 Picasso and Françoise Gilot spend the summer in Antibes. April 10th: He is buried at the Château de Vauvenargues. Picasso paints La Joie de vivre. 1947 May 15th: Birth of Claude Picasso. Starts producing ceramic objects in Vallauris. Supported by
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