Picasso

1911 :
- Exhibition in New York at Stieglitz’s gallery.
- Scandal at the Salon des Indépendants where Cubists shock. Yet neither Braque nor Picasso are participating. 
- Spends summer in Céret with Fernande and Braque.
- Painter, critic and poet Soffici writes first article in Italian about Cubism, and Futurists Boccioni, Severini and Carra visit Picasso.
- Scandal about thefts at the Louvre.
- Picasso returns the two Iberian heads bought in 1907.
- Meets Eva Gouel (Marcelle Humbert) who appears in the painting “Ma Jolie”. 

1912:
- Shows works in Berliner Secession and Blaue Reiter exhibition in Münich.
- In the spring, stays with Eva in Céret. 
- Then they spend summer in Sorgues (near Avignon) in the villa “Les Clochettes” with Braque and his wife.
- 1st collage: “Still Life with Chair Caning”
- Cardboard or wood sculptures that translate into 3 dimension his research on papiers collés. 
- After the summer, leaves his two studio 2 bld de Clichy and at Bateau-Lavoir and settles with Eva in Montparnasse 242 bld Raspail. 
- Three-year exclusive contract with Kahnweiler.

1913 :
- 8 works shown at the Amory Show in New York (among them a bronze “Head of Fernande”).
- First major retrospective in Germany at the Tannhaüser Gallery in Münich.
- Death of his father on May 3rd.
- After a few months in Céret with Eva and Max Jacob, Picasso moves into a flat wit studio 5bis rue Schoelcher.
- Small 3-dimension still lives in wood or metal. 

1914 :
- Picasso and Eva spend the whole summer in Avignon where they meet Braque and Derain. But WWI is declares and Braque, Derain and Apollinaire are mobilized in August.
- Kahnweiler, a German national is forced to exile himself to Italy. His gallery is sequestered.
- Braque- Picasso exhibition at the 291 Gallery in New York. 

1915 :
- A fatal illness takes Eva from Picasso on December 14,1915.
- Meets Cocteau.

1916 :
- Cocteau introduces Picasso to Diaghilev, famous director of the Ballets Russes. Agree to work together on “Parade”. 
- The Demoiselles d’Avignon are exhibited for the first time with this title at an exhibition organized by André Salmon on Modern Art in France at Paul Poiret at the Salon d’Antin. 
- New small house in Montrouge 22 rue Victor Hugo. 
- Picasso becomes the “Bird of Benin” in “Le poète assassiné” by Apollinaire. 

1917 :
- Travel in Italy with the Ballets Russe. Visits Pompeii, Herculanum and museums in Naples with Igor Stravinsky and Leonide Massine, then Florence and Milan. Finds a studio in Rome, via Margutta, where he makes the décor for Parade. 
- Meets Olga Kokhlova, Russian ballerina in Diaghilev’s troupe. 
- Opening performance of Parade at the Châtelet in Paris (music by script by Cocteau, décor by Picasso) creates a scandal.
- Follows tour of Parade to Barcelona where he meets his family after a 5-year absence.
- The Ballets Russes sets off on South American tour. 
- Olga stays with Picasso. They settle in Montrouge.
- “Portrait of Olga in an Armchair” and “Man Leaning on a Table” mark the end of Cubism and the birth of Neo-classicism.

1918 :
- Matisse and Picasso exhibition at Galerie Paul Guillaume in Paris. 
- Picasso moves into Hotel Lutetia in Paris with Olga. 
- In May, Apollinaire marries Jacqueline Kolb, Picasso and Vollard are witnesses.
- Then Picasso marries Olga at the Russian church rue Daru. Cocteau, Max Jacob and Apollinaire are his witnesses.
- The couple then leaves to Biarritz, staying at Mme Errazuriz’s Villa La Mimoseraie. 
- Back in Paris, meets André Breton, and Paul Rosenberg becomes his dealer.
- Apollinaire dies of Spanish influenza
- Olga and Picasso move to 23bis rue de la Boétie in Paris.  


1919 :
- Meets Catalan painter Joan Miro in Paris.
- Spend 3 months in London to paint the stage curtain for Three-cornered Hat (music by De Falla, choreography by Massine, décor by Picasso). 
- Spain summer with Olga in Saint-Raphael. Exhibition at Gallerie Rosenberg in Paris. 
- Cocteau publishes “Ode to Picasso”.
- Picasso makes first donation to Barcelona “Harlequin” (oil  on canvas, 1917). 
 

1920 :
- Opening performance of Pulcinella at the Opera (music by Pergolese arranged by Stravinsky, choreography by Massine, decor by Picasso).
- New summer in Saint-Raphael then Juan-Les-Pins Kahnweiler opens his new gallery under the name of his associate André Simon.