.ORIGINAL PICASSO, SIGNED, COA, PROVENANCE, APPRAISAL, from OLD ESTATE /Ea

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Double your traffic. PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973 b. 1881, Málaga, Spain; d. 1973, Mougins, France Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga,Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blanco, he began to draw at anearly age. In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there atLa Lonja, the academy of fine arts. His visit to Horta de Ebro from 1898 to1899 and his association with the group at the café Els Quatre Gats about 1899were crucial to his early artistic development. In 1900, Picasso’s firstexhibition took place in Barcelona, and that fall he went to Paris for thefirst of several stays during the early years of the century. Picasso settledin Paris in April 1904, and soon his circle of friends included GuillaumeApollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein, as well as two dealers,Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill. His style developed from the Blue Period (1901–04) to theRose Period (1905) to the pivotal work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), andthe subsequent evolution of Cubism [more] from an Analytic phase (ca. 1908–11),through its Synthetic phase (beginning in 1912–13). Picasso’s collaboration onballet and theatrical productions began in 1916. Soon thereafter, his work wascharacterized by neoclassicism and a renewed interest in drawing and figuralrepresentation. In the 1920s, the artist and read more