On This Day: Pablo Picasso is Born in Spain

October 25, 2020

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Source: Britannica.

Pablo Picasso Born October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain—died April 8, 1973, Mougins, France.

Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism.

Pablo Picasso, 1921, Nous autres musiciens (Three Musicians), oil on canvas.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d’Avinyó, a street in Barcelona