On Oct. 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain. Art was, for Picasso, a family affair. His father was a professor of drawing and trained his son for a career in academic art. Picasso was a young talent but quit art school to pursue more modern styles.
In 1901, at 19 years old, he had an exhibition at a notable art gallery in Paris, yet his work remained known mostly in the Barcelona art world. With time, he broke out in Paris and became one of the best-known artists in the world.
Picasso made over 50,000 pieces of work over eight decades in various mediums, including paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics.
His most famous work, Guernica, portrayed in the Cubist style the destruction of Spanish town by the same name by German bombers in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. He continued to work through his lifetime until his death in 1973.
Some museums list and offer images of the Picasso paintings in their collections online, including the Met (whose website also features a lengthy bio) and the National Gallery of Art.
