PABLO RUIZ PICASSO CHRONOLOGY ( ).

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1 PABLO RUIZ PICASSO CHRONOLOGY ( ). 1881, 25 th 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 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 Picasso s first visit to the Prado Museum in Madrid. After spending the summer in Malaga, the Ruiz-Picassos set up home in Barcelona. He takes the entrance examination for the Llotja School of Fine Arts where he studies for two years He presents Science and Charity 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 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 He returns to Barcelona and frequents the Quatre Gats tavern, a meeting place for avant-garde art. He shares discussions with Carles Casagemas, 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 Paris 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 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 25 th to July 14 th he has his first exhibition in Paris at the Vollard Gallery alongside the Basque painter Francisco Iturrino. He meets the poet Max Jacob. Beginning of the Blue Period Return to Barcelona and third trip to Paris, where he lives and works short of money in Max Jacob s room Return to Barcelona. He begins his studies for La Vie (Life), a masterpiece from the Blue Period, presently housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art His fourth and final trip to Paris where he moves to Montmartre in the building known as Bateau-Lavoir at 13 Rue de Ravignan. He meets Fernande Olivier who would become his companion until He also meets the poets Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon and frequents the Medrano Circus 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 Gertrude Stein The Steins introduce him to Henri Matisse. A stay in Gósol (Berguedà, Lleida). Return to Paris He creates Les Demoiselles d Avignon, the starting point for Cubism. He meets Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, who is to become his main dealer, and Georges Braque Braque and Picasso develop Cubism 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 Picasso and Fernande spend a few days in summer in Barcelona and then Cadaqués. Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada Barcelona tel fax [email protected] 1

2 1911 In summer, Picasso goes to Céret where he meets with Frank Burty Haviland and Manolo Hugué. Braque also moves to Céret. In autumn, he meets Eva Gouel (Marcelle Humbert) who would become his companion 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 His father dies. Brief stay in Barcelona to attend the funeral 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 Eva Gouel passes away Jean Cocteau introduces him to Serge de Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes who offers him work on the ballet Parade A trip to Italy with Cocteau to work with the Ballets Russes. He meets the ballerina Olga Khokhlova. Parade premieres in Paris with the curtain, decoration and wardrobe by Picasso. Trip to Barcelona from June to November 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 Trip to London to prepare The Three-Cornered Hat, the new Ballets Russes production Pulcinella 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 His son Paulo is born He meets the poet and critic André Bréton, head of the surrealist movement. He spends the summer at Cap d Antibes The ballet Mercure opens in Paris with decoration and wardrobe by Picasso Although not participating directly with Surrealism, his friendship with writers at the time often involves him in group meetings He meets Marie-Thérèse Walter, who he has a relationship with until 1936 and a daughter, Maya Salvador Dalí visits Picasso on his first trip to Paris His collaboration with Juli González begins, who starts him on metal sculpture He moves to Boisgeloup Castle in Normandy, which he had bought a year earlier, where he sets up his sculpture studio 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 Summer holidays in Spain: San Sebastián, Madrid, Toledo and Barcelona 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 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, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Man Ray and Dora Maar, a photographer linked to the surrealist movement and who is to become his new companion. Named honorary director of the Prado Museum in Madrid He sets up his studio at 7 Rue des Grands Augustins in Paris. On April 26 th, the German air force bombs the town of Guernica (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. Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada Barcelona tel fax [email protected] 2

3 1938 Death of his mother, María Picasso López, in Barcelona He moves to Royan with Dora Maar and Sabartés. He decides not to return to Spain until the Franco regime ends He writes his first play, Desire Caught by the Tail 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 L Humanité announces his affiliation to the French Communist Party He begins his studio collaboration with Fernand Mourlot where he explores the creative possibilities of lithography 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 Birth of his son Claude by Françoise Gilot. They go to live in Vallauris (Provence), where he begins his pottery work He takes part in the Wroclaw Congress of Intellectuals for Peace (Poland), giving a speech in favour of Pablo Neruda's release Birth of Paloma, Picasso s daughter by Françoise Gilot Picasso and Françoise separate. He meets Jacqueline Roque who would become his companion until his death Death of Olga Khokhlova. He purchases La Californie villa in Cannes, where he moves with Jacqueline He paints Las Meninas, which he would donate to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona in He purchases Vauvenargues Castle, near Aix-en-Provence 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 27 th, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona is founded in agreement with the City Council Picasso and Jacqueline Roque marry in Vallauris and move to Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins Intense engraving work for the next two years. 1963, 9 th 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 Death of Sabartés. Picasso pays homage by giving the Picasso Museum in Barcelona the Blue Portrait of Sabartés and the series of Las Meninas 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 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, 8 th April Pablo Ruiz Picasso passes away in Notre-Dame-de-Vie, in Mougins. He is buried in the garden at Vauvenargues Castle on April 10 th. Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada Barcelona tel fax [email protected] 3

4 Highlights Chronology Museu Picasso de Barcelona Man in a Beret La Coruña, ,5 x 36 cm MPB Portrait of the Artist s Mother 49,8 x 39 cm MPB Portrait of the Artist s Father 25,5 x 17,8 cm MPB Portrait 32,7 x 23,6 cm MPB Mountain Landscape Malaga, juny-juliol ,7 x 82,5 cm MPB Portrait of Aunt Pepa Malaga juny-juliol ,5 x 50,5 cm MPB Science and Charity Barcelona, x 249,5 cm MPB Quiquet s Farmhouse Horta de Sant Joan x 40 cm MPB Portrait of the writer Ramon Reventós Barcelona, Watercolour, charcoal and Conté pencil on paper 66,5 x 30,1 cm MPB Decadent Poet Barcelona, 1900 Charcoal and 48 x 32 cm MPB Riera de Sant Joan Street, from the window in the artist s studio Barcelona, 1900 Oil on wood 22,3 x 13,8 cm MPB The divan Barcelona, cap al 1899 Charcoal, pastel and coloured crayons on glazed paper 26,2 x 29,7 cm MPB The Embrace Paris, 1900 Pastel on paper 59 x 35 cm MPB Fairground Stall Paris, ,1 x 46,3 cm MPB End of the Number Pastel on canvas 72 x 46 cm MPB Still Life 60 x 80 cm MPB The Wait (Margot) Oil on board 69,5 x 57 cm MPB Woman with Bonnet 41 x 33 cm MPB Roofs of Barcelona Barcelona, x 108,5 cm MPB Motherhood Barcelona, 1903 Pastel and charcoal on paper 46 x 40 cm MPB The Madman Barcelona, x 35 cm MPB The Frugal Meal Paris, 1904 Etching and scraping on zinc 61,4 x 44,3 cm MPB Portrait of Señora Canals Paris, 1905 Oil and charcoal on canvas 88 x 68 cm MPB Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada Barcelona tel fax [email protected]

5 Highlights Chronology Museu Picasso de Barcelona Woman s Head Fernande Paris, 1906 Bronze 35,7 x 24,8 x 24,4 cm MPB The Offering Paris, 1908 Gouache on cardboard paper with white primer 30,8 x 31,1 cm MPB Harlequin 116 x 90 cm MPB Gored Horse Graphite pencil on canvas with ochre primer 80,2 x 103,3 cm MPB The passeig de Colom 40,1 x 32 cm MPB Blanquita Suárez 73,3 x 47 cm MPB Glass and Tobacco Packet Paris, x 22 cm MPB Minotauromachy 1935 Etching and scraping 49,8 x 69,3 cm MPB Portrait of Jaume Sabartés with ruff and cap Royan, x 38 cm MPB Las Meninas (group) 194 x 260 cm MPB Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) 100 x 81 cm MPB The Pigeons 100 x 80 cm MPB Spanish Platter Bullfighting scene with fish Red clay and white clay 42 cm (diameter) MPB The Bullfight Game 1957 Sugar Aquatint 20 x 30 cm MPB Painter Working Mougins, 1965 Oil and ripolin on canvas 100 x 81 cm MPB Seated Man 1969 Oil on cardboard 129 x 65 cm MPB Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada Barcelona tel fax [email protected]