I met Pablo Picasso in May, 1943, during the German occupation of France. I was twenty-one, and I felt already that painting was my whole life. At that time I had as houseguest an old school ...

Picasso’s first word, apparently, was “pencil”. Well we know what he could do with one of those, for he was a superlative ...

At Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, schoolchildren visit Picasso’s iconic painting “Guernica,” which depicts death and anguish in the aftermath of the bombing of the Basque town in 1937.

In the decades that followed, he produced thousands of breathtaking creations Julia Binswanger Daily Correspondent Pablo Picasso is most famous for his role in the Cubist movement, creating ...