Works exhibited are marked with an *; Picasso’s companions and children are shown in bold.

1881, October 25: birth in Málaga of Pablo, son of Don José Ruiz Blasco, professor of painting at the École des Arts et Métiers, and María Picasso López.

1889: The little yellow bullfighter*.

1891: moves to La Coruña, where his father teaches at the Beaux-Arts.

1895: moves to Barcelona, where his father is appointed to the Llotja and Picasso frequents brothels and bullrings. In his notebooks, nude women, toros and bullfighters are juxtaposed without interaction.

1902: Death of the Bullfighter*.

1904: Moves to Paris, to the Bateau-Lavoir, where he meets Fernande Olivier and socializes with poets and artists.

1908: The Young Ladies of Avignon

1911-1913: with Eva Gouel, whom he met in 1911 (she died in 1915), numerous stays in the South of France (Céret, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), where they attend bullfights.

1912: The Aficionado

1916: travels to Rome with the Ballets Russes, for whom he designs the stage curtain, costumes and sets for Parade. Meets dancer Olga Khokhlova.

1917: travels to Madrid with the Ballets Russes, then leaves with Olga for Barcelona, where he spends the summer attending bullfights.

1918: married Olga. Their son Paulo is born in 1921.

1919: design for the stage curtain of the Ballets Russes ballet Le Tricorne*.

1923-1924: Corrida: wounded bull and horse*

1927: meets Marie-Thérèse Walter.

1929: Bull and horse in the arena * (offprint for Balzac’s Le chef d’oeuvre inconnu).

1930-1934: Suite Vollard*

1933: August stay in Barcelona, where he attends bullfights

September 6: Death of the female bullfighter*.                                          

September 19: Death of the bullfighter

1934: Trip to Spain with Olga and Paulo.

1935: separation from Olga, birth of Maya, daughter of Marie-Thérèse.                   

March 23: Minotauromachy*                                 

April 15: Minotaur and horse*

1936-1939: Spanish Civil War and Franco’s victory, forcing Picasso into exile.

1936: Meeting with Dora Maar.                                                                

May 10: Wounded Minotaur, horse and figures*

1937: Guernica

1946: settles on the Côte d’Azur with Françoise Gilot, whom he met in May 1943, with whom he has two children, Claude born in 1947 and Paloma born in 1949. Back and forth to Nîmes, Arles, Fréjus or Céret to attend bullfights.

1950, June 29: large-scale Character Corrida*.

1954, February 14: The Bull Game* and Dance of the Banderillas*

February 17: Three Women and the Bullfighter *

June: meets Jacqueline Roque, whom he marries in 1961.

August 1: Françoise Gilot bids Picasso a public farewell in the Vallauris bullring. Linocut poster Toros en Vallauris*.

1960: Engraved work, poster for the Galerie des Ponchettes* in Nice.

1973, April 8: Picasso dies in Mougins.