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Birth of Picasso
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Family moves to Barcelona
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Period: to
Blue Period
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Beginning of Picasso's Rose period. Meets Fermande Olivier, his mistress for the next seven years
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Paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Sees African sculptures at the Trocadéro museum. Meets Georges Braque
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Picasso and Braque 'invent' Cubism
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Analytic Cubism
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Eva Gouel becomes Picasso's mistress
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Picasso's first collage. Transition to Synthetic Cubism
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Period: to
First world war, Death of Eva Gouel
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Birth of son Paulo. Figures in paintings become more classical and monumental
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Meets seventeen year old Marie-Thérèse Walter; they become lovers six months later
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Salvador Dali visits Picasso
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Marie-Thérèse Walter becomes a frequent model for Picasso
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First issue of the Surrealist magazine Minotaur for which Picasso designs the cover
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A time of anxiety in Picasso's life during which he stops painting and writes poetry. Olga and Paulo move into Hotel California. Marie-Thérèse gives birth to Maya
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Picasso meets Francoise Gilot, later his mistress
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Liberation of Paris. Picasso joins the Communist Party.
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Visits Matisse in France. Lives with Francoise Gilot
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Birth of Francoise's first child, Claude. Paints ceramics in Vallauris
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Birth of Paloma, daughter of Francoise and Picasso
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Receives Lenin Peace Prize
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Francoise leaves Picasso. He meets Jacqueline Roque
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Buys villa 'La Californie' overlooking Cannes. Lives there with Jacqueline
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Marries Jacqueline Roque
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Period: to
Picasso confronts death in paintings from his final decade
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Death of Pablo Picasso