Where can you see Pablo Picasso in London?

At the Tate Modern: Weeping Woman and The Three Dancers. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Pablo Picasso's most famous work in London?

Weeping Woman, of 1937, at the Tate Modern. A woman bites a handkerchief, her face broken into shards of acid green, yellow and violet. The model was the photographer Dora Maar, and the grief is that of the bombed town of Guernica.

When and where was Pablo Picasso born?

On 25 October 1881, at Málaga, Spain. Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973, at Mougins, France, aged about 92.

What is Pablo Picasso known for?

Painted Weeping Woman in October 1937, as a last word on Guernica. Sold The Three Dancers to the Tate in 1965. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, of Cubism.

Painter and sculptor, 1881 to 1973

Pablo Picasso

Tate has one of the strongest groups of Picassos outside France and Spain, and the two pictures at its centre were both chosen with the painter's own help.

Born: 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 1973, Mougins, France
Movement: Cubism
In London: 2 works in 1 museum

Where to see Pablo Picasso in London

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Tate Modern2 works

Weeping Woman
1937
A woman bites a handkerchief, her face broken into shards of acid green, yellow and violet. The model was the photographer Dora Maar, and the grief is that of the bombed town of Guernica.
The Three Dancers
1925
Three figures dance in front of a window, flattened and jagged, one with her head thrown back. He painted it as a friend was dying, and said he valued it above Guernica.

The life of Pablo Picasso

Picasso was born in Málaga in 1881, the son of a drawing teacher, and could draw like a master in his teens. He settled in Paris in 1904, in a ramshackle studio building in Montmartre called the Bateau-Lavoir. There, in 1907, he painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and with Georges Braque went on to invent Cubism.

He changed style every few years for seventy years: the Blue Period, Cubism, a return to classical figures, the fury of Guernica in 1937, and a flood of painting, sculpture, ceramics and prints in old age. He died at Mougins, in the south of France, in 1973.

What to know

Painted Weeping Woman in October 1937, as a last word on Guernica
Sold The Three Dancers to the Tate in 1965

Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973, Mougins, France

Pablo Picasso: common questions

Where can you see Pablo Picasso in London?: At the Tate Modern: Weeping Woman and The Three Dancers. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Pablo Picasso's most famous work in London?: Weeping Woman, of 1937, at the Tate Modern. A woman bites a handkerchief, her face broken into shards of acid green, yellow and violet. The model was the photographer Dora Maar, and the grief is that of the bombed town of Guernica.
When and where was Pablo Picasso born?: On 25 October 1881, at Málaga, Spain. Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973, at Mougins, France, aged about 92.
What is Pablo Picasso known for?: Painted Weeping Woman in October 1937, as a last word on Guernica. Sold The Three Dancers to the Tate in 1965. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, of Cubism.

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