PABLO RUIZ PICASSO CHRONOLOGY (1881-1973).

PABLO RUIZ PICASSO CHRONOLOGY (1881-1973). 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. 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 Barcelona. He takes the entrance examination for the Llotja School of Fine Arts where he studies for two years. 1897 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 La Vie (Life), a masterpiece from the Blue Period, presently housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1904 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 1912. He also meets the poets Guillaume Apollinaire 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 Gertrude Stein. 1906 The Steins introduce him to Henri Matisse. A stay in Gósol (Berguedà, Lleida). Return to Paris. 1907 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. 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. Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada 15-23 08003 Barcelona tel 93 256 30 00 fax 93 315 01 02 museupicasso@bcn.cat 1

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. 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 Jean Cocteau introduces him to Serge de Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes who offers him work on the ballet Parade. 1917 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. 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 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. 1921 His son Paulo is born. 1923 He meets the poet and critic André Bréton, head of the surrealist movement. He spends the summer at Cap d Antibes. 1924 The ballet Mercure opens in Paris with decoration and wardrobe by Picasso. 1925-1938 Although not participating directly with Surrealism, 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, 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. 1937 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 15-23 08003 Barcelona tel 93 256 30 00 fax 93 315 01 02 museupicasso@bcn.cat 2

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 Jacqueline 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 Las Meninas, 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 27 th, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona is founded in agreement with the City Council. 1961 Picasso and Jacqueline Roque marry in Vallauris and move to Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins. 1962 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. 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, 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 15-23 08003 Barcelona tel 93 256 30 00 fax 93 315 01 02 museupicasso@bcn.cat 3

Highlights Chronology Museu Picasso de Barcelona www.museupicasso.bcn.cat 1895-1896 Man in a Beret La Coruña, 1895 50,5 x 36 cm MPB 110.058 Portrait of the Artist s Mother 49,8 x 39 cm MPB 110.016 Portrait of the Artist s Father 25,5 x 17,8 cm MPB 110.331 Portrait 32,7 x 23,6 cm MPB 110.076 1896-1898 Mountain Landscape Malaga, juny-juliol 1896 60,7 x 82,5 cm MPB 110.008 Portrait of Aunt Pepa Malaga juny-juliol 1896 57,5 x 50,5 cm MPB 110.010 Science and Charity Barcelona, 1897 197 x 249,5 cm MPB 110.046 Quiquet s Farmhouse Horta de Sant Joan 1898 27 x 40 cm MPB 110.066 1899-1900 Portrait of the writer Ramon Reventós Barcelona, 1899-1900 Watercolour, charcoal and Conté pencil on paper 66,5 x 30,1 cm MPB 110.872 Decadent Poet Barcelona, 1900 Charcoal and 48 x 32 cm MPB 70.232 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 110.213 1899-1900 The divan Barcelona, cap al 1899 Charcoal, pastel and coloured crayons on glazed paper 26,2 x 29,7 cm MPB 4.267 The Embrace Paris, 1900 Pastel on paper 59 x 35 cm MPB 4.263 Fairground Stall Paris, 1900 38,1 x 46,3 cm MPB 113.113 1901 End of the Number Pastel on canvas 72 x 46 cm MPB 4.270 Still Life 60 x 80 cm MPB 4.273 The Wait (Margot) Oil on board 69,5 x 57 cm MPB 4.271 Woman with Bonnet 41 x 33 cm MPB 112.750 1903-1905 Roofs of Barcelona Barcelona, 1903 69 x 108,5 cm MPB 112.943 Motherhood Barcelona, 1903 Pastel and charcoal on paper 46 x 40 cm MPB 4.269 The Madman Barcelona, 1904 85 x 35 cm MPB 4.272 The Frugal Meal Paris, 1904 Etching and scraping on zinc 61,4 x 44,3 cm MPB 110.011 Portrait of Señora Canals Paris, 1905 Oil and charcoal on canvas 88 x 68 cm MPB 4.266 Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada 15-23 08003 Barcelona tel 93 256 30 00 fax 93 315 01 02 museupicasso@bcn.cat

Highlights Chronology Museu Picasso de Barcelona www.museupicasso.bcn.cat 1906-1917 Woman s Head Fernande Paris, 1906 Bronze 35,7 x 24,8 x 24,4 cm MPB 113.035 The Offering Paris, 1908 Gouache on cardboard paper with white primer 30,8 x 31,1 cm MPB 112.761 Harlequin 116 x 90 cm MPB 10.941 Gored Horse Graphite pencil on canvas with ochre primer 80,2 x 103,3 cm MPB 110.012 1917-1924 The passeig de Colom 40,1 x 32 cm MPB 110.028 Blanquita Suárez 73,3 x 47 cm MPB 110.013 Glass and Tobacco Packet Paris, 1924 16 x 22 cm MPB 70.243 1957 1935-1939 Minotauromachy 1935 Etching and scraping 49,8 x 69,3 cm MPB 45.006 Portrait of Jaume Sabartés with ruff and cap Royan, 1939 46 x 38 cm MPB 70.241 1957 Las Meninas (group) 194 x 260 cm MPB 70.433 Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) 100 x 81 cm MPB 70.459 The Pigeons 100 x 80 cm MPB 70.450 1957-1969 Spanish Platter Bullfighting scene with fish Red clay and white clay 42 cm (diameter) MPB 112.446 The Bullfight Game 1957 Sugar Aquatint 20 x 30 cm MPB 112.775 Painter Working Mougins, 1965 Oil and ripolin on canvas 100 x 81 cm MPB 70.810 1969 Seated Man 1969 Oil on cardboard 129 x 65 cm MPB 112.867 Museu Picasso de Barcelona Carrer Montcada 15-23 08003 Barcelona tel 93 256 30 00 fax 93 315 01 02 museupicasso@bcn.cat