Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a very famous Spanish artist. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement in art.

Picasso lived in Paris in 1900, but moved back to Madrid in 1901. During the first five months of 1901, Francisco de Asís Soler and Picasso founded and published five issues of the magazine Arte Joven, which means Young Art in English. He illustrated for the magazine with a lot of cartoons that illustrated and sympathized with the poor. March 31, 1901 was the date of the publication of the first issue of Arte Joven.

Picasso joined an art gallery in Paris that had recently been opened by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler in 1907. While in Paris, he was good friends with a poet named Guillaume Apollinaire who was arrested in 1911 under suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Picasso was also brought in for questioning, but both were later exonerated.

Pablo Picasso died in Mougins, France on April 8, 1973, while his wife Jacqueline and him had friends over for dinner. "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore," were his final words.

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