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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Wikipedia, Feb. 26, 2013 ǂb (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso; born 25 October 1881 in Málaga, Spain; died 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France; Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War)

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Identifier: t-1970.chi.01-001
Dates: 1970; Digitized: March 11, 2009