Pablo Picasso
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Timeline
October 25, 1881:
·Pablo Ruiz Picasso born in Málaga, Spain
October, 1892:
·Enters classes at the art school in La Coruña, Spain
1895:
·Picasso's father lands a job at La Lonja, the art
school in Barcelona
September, 1895:
·Passes La Lonja entrance exam
1897:
·"Science and Charity" wins a gold medal at the Exposición
de Bellas Artes in Málaga
October, 1897:
·Picasso enters the Academia Real de San Fernando in
Madrid
June, 1898: P
·icasso goes with Pallarés to Horta de Ebro
February, 1899:
·Picasso returns from Horta de Ebro to Barcelona and
begins to frequent Els Quatre Gats
February 1, 1900:
·Picasso's exhibition of drawings at Els Quatre Gats
opens
October, 1900:
·Picasso and Casagemas leave together for Paris
February 17, 1901:
·Casagemas commits suicide in Paris
June 24, 1901:
·Picasso's show opens at the Galerie Vollard
Winter, 1901:
·Blue Period begins
October, 1902:
·Picasso moves back to Paris from Barcelona, shares
difficult times with Jacob
November 15, 1902:
·Picasso's show opens at the Berthe Weill gallery
Spring, 1903:
·Begins painting "La Vie"
April, 1904:
·Moves into the Bateau-Lavoir
Autumn, 1904:
·Meets Apollinaire and Olivier
Autumn, 1905:
·Meets Stein. Fauves debut at the Salon d'Automne.
Summer, 1906:
·Begins carving wooden sculptures
1907:
·Meets Braque through Apollinaire
January, 1907:
·Begins painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Summer, 1909:
·Vacations with Olivier in Horta de Ebro
September, 1909:
·Picasso and Olivier move into 11 boulevard de Clichy,
near the Place Pigalle
Summer, 1911:
·Paints with Braque in Céret
Autumn, 1911:
·Meets Gouel
1912:
·Makes "Still Life with Chair Caning"
1913:
·Apollinaire publishes Les Peintres cubistes.
Armory Show in New York.
August, 1914:
·Beginning of World War I
December 14, 1915:
·Gouel dies
March, 1916:
·Apollinaire returns to Paris, wounded
May, 1916:
·Meets Diaghilev and begins work on Parade
February, 1917:
·Goes to Rome with Cocteau, working on Parade, meets
Koklova
July 12, 1918:
·Marries Koklova
1921:
·Paints "Three Musicians" and "Three Women at the Spring," two
versions of each
February 4, 1921:
·Birth of Paulo
June, 1925:
·Paints "The Dance"
November 14, 1925:
·First Surrealist group show opens
January, 1927:
·Meets Walter
Autumn, 1928:
·Metal sculptures with González
1930:
·Paints "The Crucifixion" after Grünewald
January, 1932:
·Paints "The Dream"
June, 1935:
·Separation from Koklova
October 5, 1935:
·Birth of Maïa
1936:
·Meets Maar and becomes friends with Éluard
July 14, 1936:
·Contributes to Popular Front festivities
July 18, 1936:
·Spanish Civil War begins
April 26, 1937:
·Guernica bombed; "Guernica" begun soon after
1939:
·MOMA acquires "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" for major retrospective.
Photographs of Picasso in Paris appear in Life magazine.
World War II begins.
1940:
·German forces occupy Paris
January, 1941:
·Begins writing Desire Caught by the Tail
May, 1942:
·Paints "Aubade"
May, 1943:
·Meets Gilot
March 19, 1944:
·Private performance of Desire Caught by the
Tail
August, 1944:
·World War II ends
October 5, 1944:
·Joins Communist Party
May 15, 1947:
·Birth of Claude
April 19, 1949:
·Birth of Paloma
September, 1953:
·Gilot leaves
June, 1954:
·Meets Roque
May, 1955:
·Moves into La Californie villa at Cannes
February 11, 1955:
·Koklova dies
September, 1958:
·Buys the Château de Vauvenargues
March 2, 1961:
·Marries Roque
April 8, 1973:
·Dies
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