ell. Picasso met Eva Marcelle Humbert, and fell in love with her but the war separated them and she died in 1915. Picasso worked on “Harlequin” to cope with the grief of his lost friend. In 1917, Picasso involved himself with Diaghilev’s Russian Ballet. He worked on costume and set design for Parade(1917) and while all this was going on Picasso met his future bride, Olga Kokhloven, who was a dancer for the ballet. The Ballet gave him inspiration for his next work, “Three Dancers”. Then something dreadful happened, a small Spanish town became a test site for some new bombs. Picasso’s work, the “Guernica” demonstrates the horror, cruelty, and injustice that took place. On a greater scale, not only does it provide compassion for those lost at Guernica, but it also illustrates how useless and horrible war truly is. Following that, Picasso became director of the Prado Gallery in Madrid. World War II blazed on while Picasso worked in Paris and he worked diligently despite the world around him.Picasso left his wife in 1931, and following that he had many mistresses that provided him with inspiration for his works and even did some modeling work for him. Picasso took an interest in the last one of the mistresses, Jacqueline Roque, and decided he wanted her to be his wife. Picasso’s 90th birthday was celebrated with an exhibition of eight of his works in the Louve Museum of Paris. Pablo Picasso created over 50,000 works in his lifetime. These were not all paintings either. Included in Picasso’s works are: 347 untitled engravings, stage sets, illustrations of classical texts, sculptures, ceramics, lithography, a play, and two collections of poetry. Picasso died in Mougins, France at age 92. No one could say that Pablo Picasso was not a creative individual. One look at the life he lived and it is easily seen what a genius he was and perhaps the most renowned artist of all ...
