Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous painters of the 20th century. His uninhibited and unparalleled paintings fascinate many people and scholars to this day.
We have collected 10 surprising facts about Picasso.

1) His formal name is 25 words long

Picasso, who was born and baptized, was officially named Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Luis y Picasso de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso), a baptismal name as long as Jugem.
He is called "Pablo Picasso" after this head and buttocks.

(2) When he was born, the midwife thought he was stillborn.

Picasso, who was born in a difficult birth, was unusually light and underdeveloped for a newborn, and was left on a side table immediately after birth because it was thought to be a stillbirth.
The doctors who attended the birth began to tend to the mother, and when the uncle began to smoke a cigarette, he suddenly began to cry, indicating that she was alive.
Picasso's life was saved by his uncle when he was a newborn.

(iii) The first words he ever spoke.

Picasso was born to a father who worked as a painter. Perhaps because of this, the first word he spoke was "Lapiz," which means "pencil" in Spanish.
His father, who specialized in naturalistic paintings of birds, gave Picasso an art education from the age of seven.
But that, too, came to an end when Picasso was 14. My son already knows how to paint better than I do," he said.

His work at the age of 14

4) He was suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa.

In 1911, an incident shook the art world. The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum.
When the police interviewed local residents, a man named Guillaume Apollinaire, a famous French poet, came to light.

Upon investigation, Apollinaire testified that a friend named Picasso had stolen the Mona Lisa, and Picasso was taken to jail as a defendant.
In the end, he said that the real culprit was a security guard at the Louvre, who was arrested when he was having trouble selling the work.

(5) He was the most stolen painter in history.

Ironically, Picasso's own paintings are the most stolen in history, according to the Art Loss Register.
Many of his works are still missing to this day due to theft.
Most of the Picasso thefts occurred between 2010 and 2012.

A work was found in Athens 9 years after it was stolen.

(6) He was in the public eye for his colorful love affairs.

Picasso, who had romantic relationships with numerous women, had four women and three children during his lifetime.
Legally, he was married to a woman named Olga Koklova. Because of the complicated divorce process, the marriage remained intact until Olga's death in 1955.
She famously had mistresses and children with surrealist photographer Dora Maar and painter Françoise Giraud.

Dora Maar and Picasso


(6) Francoise Giraud and Picasso

(7) He produced more than 150,000 works of art

Picasso was a very prolific artist, producing over 150,000 paintings, sculptures, collages, and drawings. His career spanned 91 years.
During that time, he experimented with a variety of styles, including "Blue Period" and "Cubism," and as an artist always in the vanguard, he is the one who created the current "artist image.

Crying Woman


Works from the Age of Blue

(viii) He also had a talent for literature

Surprisingly, he wrote more than 300 poems in his later years. She also wrote surrealist plays.
They did not attract as much attention as his paintings, but it is said that one of his plays in his own hand was seen by Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and even Jean-Paul Sartre.

(ix) Picasso was an underachiever in school.

After Picasso's father realized that there was nothing more he could teach his son, Picasso began attending art school at age 13.
There, he showed outstanding results in art, but was not so remarkable in the study department, and it is said that he only drew pictures during his study time.

(10) His last words influenced Paul McCartney.

At the age of 91, Picasso said at a dinner party at Mougin, "Make a toast to me, make a toast to my health. I can't drink anymore," he said.
He died of a heart attack.
Inspired by this, Paul McCartney released a song called Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me).

Paul McCartney's Albums