Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (; ; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is 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 dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica
Picasso's African Period and reworked in July of that year), especially in the treatment of the two figures on the right side of the composition. Although "Les Demoiselles" is seen as a proto-cubist work, Picasso continued to develop a style derived from African art before beginning the analytic cubism phase of his painting in 1910. Other works of Picasso's African Period include the "Bust of a Woman" (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); "Mother and Child" (Summer 1907, in the Musée Picasso, Paris); "Nude with Raised Arms" (1907, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and "Three Women" (Summer 1908, in the Hermitage Museum,