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Pablo Picasso
PainterKnown for:
Guernica (1937); co-inventor of Cubism
Education:
Barcelona School of Fine Arts (La Lonja); Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid (briefly); largely self-directed
Pablo Picasso co-invented Cubism with Georges Braque around 1907, developing a way of representing objects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously that broke more decisively with Western pictorial tradition than any development since the Renaissance. He produced an estimated 20,000 works across painting, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking across a career spanning eight decades. Guernica (1937), made in response to the bombing of a Basque town by Nazi Germany, is among the most politically significant paintings of the twentieth century.
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Sennelier
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Sennelier Oil Pastels were developed in direct collaboration with Picasso in 1949, when he asked Henri Sennelier to create an oil-based stick medium. Documented in Sennelier company history and multiple accounts of the product's development.
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Sennelier Oil Pastels were developed in collaboration with Pablo Picasso in 1949, when he asked the Parisian colorist Henri Sennelier to create a stick medium that combined the richness of oil paint with the directness of pastel. The resulting product — a blend of oil, wax, and high-quality pigments — allowed for immediate drawing and blending without drying. Sennelier's shop near the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris has supplied materials to artists in the city since 1887.
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Last updated March 20, 2026