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Picasso's connection with Barcelona

The personal ties between Picasso and Barcelona, that are essential to understand the process of the museum's creation, were established in the late nineteenth century and endured until the artist's death. Barcelona became a significant link in the chain of Picasso's life, not only during his artistic apprenticeship but also in his exposure as an artist.

Born in Malaga, Picasso and his family moved to Barcelona in 1895, when he was almost fourteen years of age, and where he would live until 1904. These nine years were the years of his academic training, his adolescence and the formation of his character. They also marked the first step in his artistic development in a city immersed in a dense intellectual climate, against a backdrop of ideological and social struggles. The artist led his life in the old quarter of the city, in the neighbourhood of La Ribera and its environs. During those years, Picasso established a coterie of artists and friends to whom he would remain forever close and would strengthen his ties to the city.

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The year 1939 began with difficulty for Picasso. On January 13 his mother died in Barcelona. A few days later, the city fell to the Francoists. At the same time, since 1933, Hitler's regime had established itself in a large part of Eastern Europe. The exhibition on Degenerate Art, organized by the Nazis, presented four works by Picasso in Munich. This exhibition began on July 19, 1937, and has been circulating in all major cities in Germany and Austria for four years. More than 3 million visitors attended. The goal was to show the public art made by artists stigmatized as "sick" and on the fringe of a "superior race", as advocated by Hitler. Depressed by all these events, Picasso left for Royan to take the sea air, where he stayed until 1940. He followed from afar the beginnings of the second great world conflict: between September 1st and 3rd, Germany invaded Poland. France and Great Britain entered the war. Picasso returned to Paris the same year. His request for French nationality was refused because of his anarchist associations dating back to the 1900s, according to a police

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At the Lapin Agile

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Title:At the Lapin Agile

Artist:Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)

Date:1905

Medium:Oil on canvas

Dimensions:39 in. × 39 1/2 in. (99.1 × 100.3 cm)

Classification:Paintings

Credit Line:The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection,
Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1992,
Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Object Number:1992.391

Frédéric (Frédé) Gérard, Paris (1905–12; acquired from the artist in 1905; sold in 1912); Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf (1912–14; sold in August 1914 for 7,000 marks, through Nils Dardel, to de Maré); Rolf de Maré, Hildesborg, Sweden, and Paris (1914–52; sold on June 10, 1952, for $40,000, to de Hauke and Brame); [César Mange de Hauke, New York and Hector Brame, Paris, 1952; sold on August 5, 1952 to Knoedler]; [Knoedler and Co., New York, 1952; sold in September 1952, reportedly for $60,000, to Payson]; Joan