Pablo Picasso- Life

Málaga, Spain. Pablo Ruiz Picasso is born

Oct 25, 1881

Pablo Picasso's Life

Period: Oct 25, 1881 to Apr 8, 1973

Started classes at the art school in La Coruña, Spain

Oct 5, 1892

Entered the Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid

Oct 8, 1897

Picasso exhibitions drawings at Els Quatre Gats

Feb 1, 1900

The Blue Period begins

Jan 20, 1901

Picasso's friend Casagemas commits suicide in Paris

Feb 17, 1901

Begins carving wooden sculptures

Jul 30, 1906

Picasso's friend and lover Gouel dies

Dec 14, 1915

Marries Olga Koklova

Jul 12, 1918

Birth of Picasso's Son Paul Joseph Picasso

Feb 4, 1921

First Surrealist group show opens

Nov 14, 1925

Metal sculptures

Nov 23, 1928

Picasso's divorces rom Koklova

Jun 1, 1935

Birth of Picasso's daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso

Sep 5, 1935

Spanish Civil War begins

Jul 18, 1936

World War 2 starts

Sep 1, 1939

Picasso begins writing Desire Caught by the Tail

Jan 1, 1941

Picasso joins the Communist Party

Oct 5, 1944

Birth of Picasso's son Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso

May 15, 1947

Birth of Picasso's daughter Paloma Picasso

Apr 19, 1949

Olga Koklova dies

Feb 11, 1955

Picasso buys the Château de Vauvenargues

Sep 6, 1958

Marries Jacqueline Roque

Mar 2, 1961

Pablo Picasso dies of a heart attack

Apr 8, 1973