Artist

Pablo Picasso: where to see him across these museums

Spanish, 1881–1973. Co-inventor of Cubism, and one of the most reproduced artists of the twentieth century — his paintings are spread across far more museums than any single visit could cover.

Rooms and display status checked against each museum’s own collection database.

Born in Málaga in 1881, Picasso trained under his own father, a drawing teacher, before moving to Barcelona and then Paris. His Blue Period (1901–1904) and Rose Period (1904–1906) came first; then, working alongside Georges Braque from around 1907, he broke figures into overlapping planes and helped invent Cubism — the movement that most defines his reputation today.

He kept painting for another six decades, restlessly changing style: neoclassical figures in the 1920s, the anguished forms of Guernica (1937) in response to the Spanish Civil War, and increasingly loose, physical brushwork into his eighties. He died in Mougins, in the south of France, in 1973.

Picasso paintings on display, museum by museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Cleveland Museum of Art

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MoMA, New York

The National Gallery, London

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Musée de l’Orangerie

Musée Picasso, Paris

Tate Britain, London

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Rooms and display status checked against each museum’s own collection database.

Listen to the commentary in the gallery

This list tells you where to look. In front of the actual painting, CulturAll adds the audio commentary: photograph the work or its label, listen, then ask your questions.