Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known fo...
Artist, Painter, Sculptor, Printmaker, Set Designer, Visual Artist
Education
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Nationality
Spain
Spouse
Jacqueline Roque (m. 1961–1973), Olga Khokhlova (m. 1918–1955)
Children
Paloma Picasso, Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Paul Joseph Picasso
Parents
José Ruiz y Blasco, María Picasso y López
Siblings
Lola Picasso, Conchita Picasso
Nicknames
Picasso , Picaso , Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso , Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
Awards
Lenin Peace Prize
Movies
Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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I'm always doing things I've never done before, that's how I get to do them.
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There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who - thanks to their art and intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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[reportedly his last words] Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink anymore.
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Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog and I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Many people say they don't like my art because they don't understand it. Well, I don't understand Chinese, but that doesn't mean I don't like it.
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You should have an idea of what it is you want to do . . . but it should be a vague idea.
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It isn't necessary to paint a man with a gun. An apple can be just as revolutionary.
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Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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Fact
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Billionaire Casino mogul Steve Wynn purchased "Le Reve", a portrait of Picasso's mistress Marie-Therese Walter, for $48m in 1997. In 2006 Wynn agreed to sell the painting to Billionaire Hedge Fund Mogul Steve Cohen. But later, at a celebratory get-together, Steve Wynn accidentally put his elbow through it. The sale was postponed so that the $45m worth of damage could be repaired, and the painting was eventually sold to Cohen in 2013 at a price of $155m, 16m more than it would have sold for in 2006.
Was a Communist, ironic in light of his being the world's wealthiest artist at the time of his death in 1973, leaving an estate valued at between $100 million and $260 million ($442 million and $1.15 billion in 2005 dollars).
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A Rose Period Picasso that Gone with the Wind (1939) financier John Hay Whitney had bought for $30,000 in 1950, "Boy With a Pipe," was auctioned off in 2004 for a record $104.2 million, the proceeds left over from the $93-million bid price to fund the charitable Greentree Foundation established by his wife Betsey Cushing Whitney after his death.
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He is the subject of the songs "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" by Wings, "Pablo Picasso" by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers and "Picasso and Me" by Gretchen Peters (which is written from the point of view of Picasso's cat). He is also mentioned in the song "Big Wedge" by former Marillion singer Fish (a UK Top 40 single in 1990).
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Picasso's liaison with Marie-Thérèse Walter produced one daughter: Maya Widmaier Picasso (aka "Maya (Maria de la Concepcion) Picasso"), born 1932. Another liaison with artist Françoise Gilot produced Claude Picasso (born 1947) and Paloma Picasso born 1949.
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One son by wife Olga, a Russian ballerina: Paulo Picasso, born 1919.
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Recognized as the world's most prolific painter by the Guinness Book of World Records: during a career that lasted 78 years he produced an estimated 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics, making a total of 147,800 works of art.
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He has had more auction sales than any other artist: as of May 1999 his works had been sold 3,595 times for a total worth of $1.23 billion. His most valuable painting was "Femme aux bras croises" (1902), sold for $55.6 million at Christie's on 8/11/2000, making it the most valuable painting made in the 20th century. More of his paintings--190 of them at last count--have sold for over $1 million than those of any other artist.
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An estimated 350 of his works have been stolen, more than any other artist.
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Born at 11:15pm-LMT
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Picasso and Dance
2005
TV Movie painter: stage curtain for "Le Train bleu" / painter: stage curtain for "Le Tricorne"
Something's Gotta Give
2003
artwork
Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum
2002
TV Movie art work
Aale Tynni tarinain lähteellä
1987
TV Movie documentary art
Bitka na Neretvi
1969
painter: original artwork - uncredited
Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler
1962
Documentary art
Le mystère Picasso
1956
Documentary painter: original artwork - uncredited
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ten Modern Artists
1964
TV Mini-Series
Subject
Testament of Orpheus
1960
Un ami d'Orphée (uncredited)
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt
1971
TV Movie story
Animation Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bitka na Neretvi
1969
painter
Costume Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Picasso and Dance
2005
TV Movie costume designer - segment ": "Le Tricorne"
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Picasso and Dance
2005
TV Movie segment "Le Tricorne"
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists
1995
Documentary short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Manitas de Plata, príncipe de Camargue
1971
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Picasso
1969
Documentary
Himself
Our World
1967
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Sunday Night
1965
TV Series documentary
Himself - Subject
Picasso: Sir Kenneth Clark at the Tate Gallery
1960
TV Movie
Himself - Subject
Monitor
1960
TV Series documentary
Himself - Subject, 'Picasso'
En direct de...
1956
TV Series documentary
Himself
Le mystère Picasso
1956
Documentary
Himself
Picasso
1955
Documentary
Himself
Life Begins Tomorrow
1950
Documentary
The Artist
Bezoek aan Picasso
1949
Documentary short
Himself
La Garoupe
1937
Documentary short
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ochéntame... otra vez
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself
Million Dollar American Princesses
2016
TV Mini-Series
Himself
Picasso, naissance de l'icône
2015
Documentary
Himself
Steve Jobs
2015
Himself (uncredited)
The Culture Show
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself
Cocteau Marais - Un couple mythique
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Les artistes et le parti, 1945 - 1968
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Secrets d'histoire
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Untold History of the United States
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Artist
For No Good Reason
2012
Documentary
Himself
Morente
2011
Documentary
Himself
Public Speaking
2010
Documentary
Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
20 heures le journal
2007
TV Series
Himself
Protagonistas del recuerdo
2006
TV Series
Himself
La imagen de tu vida
2006
TV Series
Himself
Sendung ohne Namen
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
Matisse-Picasso
2002
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Legenden
2001
TV Series documentary
Himself
Biography of the Millennium: 100 People - 1000 Years
$500 Million
