Article: Pablo Picasso: the early years.(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; adapted from the exhibition catalogue)

On OCT. 25, 1881, Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Crispin Crispiniano Santisma Trinidad was born to Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso Lopez in Malaga, Spain. He was called Pablo Ruiz Picasso, but by 1901 he had dropped his father's surname in favor of his mother's. His choice probably was influenced by the fact that Picasso, a name of Italian origin, sounded more distinguished than the common Spanish name Ruiz.

As a child, Picasso attended elementary school in Malaga and, under his father's guidance, began to draw and make paper cutouts. His earliest known drawings depict pigeons, bullfights, and a full-length figure ...

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