
Pablo PicassoSpanish, 1881–1973May one see it?
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
1895–1904 · Workplace
Barcelona
1901–1904
The Blue Period
The Blue Period began — somber paintings in blue-green tones with themes of poverty and sorrow; Picasso divided his time between Barcelona and Paris.
1904
Move to Paris, Beginning of the Rose Period
Picasso settled in the Bateau-Lavoir residence in Montmartre; the sorrow of the Blue Period gave way to images of the theater and the circus — the Rose Period began.
1907
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Picasso created Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a programmatic work with deliberate deformation of nature that opened the way to Cubism. The painting was not publicly exhibited until 1916.
1907
Meeting Georges Braque
Picasso met Georges Braque; together they became the founders of Cubism, a movement that rejected the traditions of naturalism.
May 1907
Visit to the Ethnographic Museum
At the Ethnographic Museum in Paris Picasso was struck by the masks of the peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Polynesia — an experience that influenced the formation of Cubism.