P a b l o P i c a s s o
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P a s t e l o n P a p e r
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PICASSO'S MOTHER, Maria
Picasso Lopez, was a strong,
vital character who held her
family together through many
hard times. She was a small,
dark, sturdy woman, and
Picasso inherited both
her
frame and her energy, though
he sometimes regretted that he
had failed to inherit the looks
of his tall, fair father. Various
interpretations have been put
on the fact that he chose to call
himself by his mother's name,
Picasso, rather than that of his
father, Jose Ruiz Blasco.
Picasso himself claimed that he
took his mother's name simply
because it was a very unusual
and striking one.
By 1896,
when this pastel was done,
15-year-old Picasso had
developed into an
accomplished artist, set up in
his own studio. A year earlier,
the family had settled in
Spain's most go-ahead,
thriving city, Barcelona, which
became the scene of Picasso's
earliest triumphs.
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Source: Life and Works of Picasso
Further Reading: Biography I
Further Reading: Life of Picasso
Further Reading: Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau
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