Where can you see Pablo Picasso in Madrid?

At the Museo Reina Sofía: Guernica and Woman in Blue. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

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

Guernica, of 1937, at the Museo Reina Sofía. His answer to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in April 1937, painted in Paris for the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the International Exhibition. Black, white and grey, nearly eight metres wide.

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?

He studied at the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1897. Guernica came to Spain in 1981. His works are not pictured here: they are still under copyright. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, of Cubism.

Painter and sculptor, 1881 to 1973

Pablo Picasso

Picasso studied in Madrid as a boy and never lived in Spain again after the war. But his most famous painting is here: Guernica came to the city in 1981, as he had wished, once Spain was a democracy.

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

Where to see Pablo Picasso in Madrid

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

Museo Reina Sofía2 works

Guernica
1937
His answer to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in April 1937, painted in Paris for the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the International Exhibition. Black, white and grey, nearly eight metres wide.
Woman in Blue
1901
A woman in a blue dress and a large hat, painted in Madrid at nineteen, shown at an exhibition in the city and left behind.

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

He studied at the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1897
Guernica came to Spain in 1981
His works are not pictured here: they are still under copyright

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

Pablo Picasso: common questions

Where can you see Pablo Picasso in Madrid?: At the Museo Reina Sofía: Guernica and Woman in Blue. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Pablo Picasso's most famous work in Madrid?: Guernica, of 1937, at the Museo Reina Sofía. His answer to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in April 1937, painted in Paris for the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the International Exhibition. Black, white and grey, nearly eight metres wide.
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?: He studied at the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1897. Guernica came to Spain in 1981. His works are not pictured here: they are still under copyright. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, of Cubism.