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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 to Don José Ruiz Blasco (1838-1939) and Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez (1855-1939). The family at the time resided in Málaga, Spain, where Don José, a painter himself, taught drawing at the local school of Fine Arts and Crafts. Pablo spent the first ten years of his life there. The family was far from rich, and when 2 other children were born -- Dolorès ("Lola") in 1884 and Concepción ("Conchita") in 1887 -- it was often difficult to make ends meet. When Don José was offered a better-paid job, he accepted it immediately, and the Picassos moved to the provincial capital of La Coruna, where they lived for the next four years. In 1892, Pablo entered the School of Fine Arts there, but it was mostly his father who taught him painting. By 1894 Pablo’s works were so well executed for a boy of his age that his father recognized Pablo’s amazing talent, and, handing Pablo his brush and palette, declared that he would never paint again.

In 1895 Don José got a professorship at “La Lonja”, the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, and the family settled there. Pablo passed the entrance examination in an advanced course in classical art and still life at the same school. He was better than senior students doing their final exam projects.

“Unlike in music, there are no child prodigies in painting. What people regard as premature genius is the genius of childhood. It gradually disappears as they get older. It is possible for such a child to become a real painter one day, perhaps even a great painter. But he would have to start right from the beginning. So far as I am concerned, I did not have that genius. My first drawings could never have been shown at an exhibition of children’s drawings. I lacked the clumsiness of a child, his naivety. I made academic drawings at the age of seven, the minute precision of which frightened me.” -- Picasso.

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	The Barefoot Girl. Detail. 1895. Oil on canvas. Musée Picasso, Paris, France.
	First Communion. 1895/96. Oil on canvas. Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.
	Portrait of the Artist's Mother. 1896. Pastel on Paper. Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.
	Self-Portrait. 1896. Oil on canvas. Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.
	Science and Charity. 1897. Oil on canvas. Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.
	Matador Luis Miguel Dominguin. 1897. Pencil on paper.
	Lola, Picasso's Sister. 1899.
	A Spanish Couple in front of an Inn. 1900. Pastel on cardboard. Private collection.
	Leaning Harlequin. 1901. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
	Woman with Chignon. 1901. Oil on canvas. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
	Death of Casagemas. 1901. Oil on wood. Musée Picasso, Paris, France.
	Self-Portrait in Blue Period. 1901. Oil on canvas.
	Portrait of the Art Dealer Pedro Manach. 1901. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	The Absinthe Drinker. 1901. Oil on cardboard. Melville Hall Collection, New York, NY, USA.
	Woman in a Blue Hat. 1901. Pastel on cardboard. Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, Switzerland.
	The Absinthe Drinker. 1901. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	Woman with a Cigarette. 1901. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.
	Le Gourmet. 1901. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	L'Absinthe. 1901. Charcoal, pastel, gouache on paper. Collection of  Otto Krebs, Holzdorf. Now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	The Visit (Two Sisters). 1902. Oil on canvas pasted on panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	Breakfast of a Blind Man. 1903. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
	La Vie (Life). 1903. Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA.
	The Tragedy. 1903. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Portrait of a Young Woman. 1903. Oil on canvas pasted on cardboard. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	The Old Guitarist. 1903. Oil on panel. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
	Portrait of Soler. 1903. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	Old Beggar with a Boy. 1903. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.
	L'ascete. 1903. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.
	Woman with a Crow. 1904. Charcoal, pastel and water-color on paper. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA.
	The Catalan Sculptor Manolo (Manuel Hugué). 1904. Ink and watercolor on paper.
	In 'Lapin Agile' or Harlequin with a Glass. 1905. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
	Harlequin Sitting on a Red Couch. 1905. Chinese ink and watercolor on paper. Private collection.
	Acrobat on a Ball. 1905 Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.
	Tumblers (Mother and Son). 1905. Gouache on canvas. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany.
	Girl in a Chemise. c.1905. Oil on canvas. Tate Gallery, London, UK.
	The Family of Saltimbanques. 1905. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Boy with a Dog. 1905. Pastel and gouache on cardboard. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	Two Brothers. 1905. Oil on canvas. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
	Two Youths. 1905. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Acrobat and Young Harlequin. 1905. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.
	Juggler with Still-Life. 1905. Gouache on cardboard. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Lady with a Fan. 1905. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Young Girl with a Goat. 1906. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.

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