Title: Paris in the Belle Époque
Content: arrived in Montmartre at the turn of the century. Drawn by the reputation of Paris as the world capital of art, Pablo Picasso came from Barcelona in 1900 to share an apartment with the poet Max Ernst and began by painting the cabarets and prostitutes of the neighborhood. Amedeo Modigliani and other artists lived and worked in a building called Le Bateau-Lavoir during the years 1904–1909. In 1909, Picasso painted one of his most important masterpieces, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", in Le Bateau-Lavoir. Led by Picasso and Georges Braque, the artistic movement cubism was born in Paris. Henri Matisse came to

Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Content: never liked Salmon's title, and as an edulcoration would have preferred "Las chicas de Avignon" instead. Picasso came into his own as an important artist during the first decade of the 20th century. He arrived in Paris from Spain around the turn of the century as a young, ambitious painter out to make a name for himself. Although he eventually left most of his friends, relatives and contacts in Spain, he continued to live and paint in Spain while making regular trips back to France. For several years he alternated between living and working in Barcelona, Madrid and the Spanish

Title: Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death
Content: Richardson chats with descendants of Picasso's associates there at Els Quatre Gats (4 Cats), the legendary tavern and brothel that was the focal point of his life then. Picasso's true bohemian life began in 1900 in Montmartre, Paris, where his best friend Carlos Casagemas — poet, painter, addict — committed suicide the next year and influenced some of Picasso's important early works. Picasso’s gang gathered at the Lapin Agile (poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob, various women). During this time the persistent themes of the harlequin and masks emerged in Picasso’s work (e.g., "The Saltimbanques"). In 1904, he moved to

Title: Joaquín Torres-García
Content: Passos reflected in Manhattan Transfer." Departs a second time for Paris, with thirty-two crates of paintings. After an encounter with his friend Picasso, who advised him not to leave Paris; "do not to go to America, because it will be like leaping into a void". His work turns from classicism to Cubism, while Picasso's from Cubism to classicism. Seeking to experience a modern city, he travels to New York with the intention of staying two years. He lived at 138 West 49th Street, then 14th Street on the very day he became 46 years old. Shortly afterward at 4 West

Title: Gino Severini
Content: Severini settled in Paris in November 1906. The move was momentous for him. He said later, "The cities to which I feel most strongly bound are Cortona and Paris: I was born physically in the first, intellectually and spiritually in the second." He lived in Montmartre and dedicated himself to painting. There he met most of the rising artists of the period, befriending Amedeo Modigliani and occupying a studio next to those of Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque and Suzanne Valadon. He knew most of the Parisian avant-garde, including Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Lugné-Poe and his theatrical

Question: Picasso moved to Paris in 1901 but where was he born?
Answer: Spain