Pablo Picasso was born on October 25th, 1881.

• Picasso’s full name includes 24 names of patron saints of his numerous relatives.
• It is hard to find another artist whose works would cause so many disputes. Some people pronounce his name with delight, others – with irony and mockery.
• Picasso had talents in many fields of art. Though everybody remembers Pablo Picasso as a gifted artist, he also created beautiful sculptures, worked with graphics and ceramics.
• He was also a set designer, poet, playwright, writer, and designer. He was an artist striving for new forms.

• During the ninety-one years of his life, the Spanish artist created a vast number of pictures: the New York Modern Art Museum says that there are almost twenty thousand. But the number of stories and their meanings is beyond measure.
• Pablo Picasso did some graphic works with non-traditional materials like nail polish, lipstick, ballpoint pen. According to the Guinness Book of World Records 1998, Picasso was one of the most productive artists of the world.
• In his journey from objective to surrealistic, Pablo Picasso went the longest way. “Why copy reality if the camera lens does it perfectly?” He would shrug his shoulders and get back to his canvas, where realism, post-impressionism, cubism, and surrealism ruled in different periods.
• The first exhibition by Pablo Picasso took place when he was 13.
• The artist was eccentrical in any aspect of his life. Even his car was tuned up to his personality. It was a small Citroen, designed in the cubistic style of the artist’s pictures. You could not miss this car.
• Picasso liked animals. He kept a boxer dog Jan and a goat Esmeralda, but he was not sentimental about them, while dachshund Lump got a special place in his life, and he loved her more than any of his women. Especially for his pet, the artist painted a porcelain plate, where Lump was eating from the same table as her owner.
• In 2015 a new absolute record was set for the open sale works of art at the Christie’s auction house – Picasso’s painting “Algerian women” was sold for 179 thousand of dollars.