Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga on October 25, 1881, and died in Mougins on April 8, 1973, is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, a Spanish painter, sculptor, and lithographer who revolutionized modern art. Son of painter and professor Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez, Pablo showed exceptional talent from childhood: his father introduced him early to drawing and painting, so that by age eight he was already painting masterfully. The family moved first to La Coruna in 1891, where Pablo attended the School of Fine Arts, and then to Barcelona in 1895, at the La Llotja Academy, where he entered at age 13 after an extraordinary exam. These formative years in Spain laid the foundations for his extraordinary career, marked by innovative and versatile genius.

In 1900 Picasso moved to Paris, the epicenter of bohemian art, where he developed his first artistic periods: the Blue Period (1901-1904), characterized by melancholic tones and themes of poverty and suffering, and the Rose Period (1904-1906), warmer and more serene with circus figures. His revolutionary turning point came with Cubism, co-invented with Georges Braque around 1907, which shattered traditional forms to represent reality from multiple perspectives, as in the iconic Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Fleeing Spain during the Civil War in 1936, he created Guernica in 1937 for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Universal Exhibition, a work symbolizing war and fascist horror. His works, auctioned by houses like arcadia, reach million-dollar prices.