Picasso

1921 :
- February 4 : Birth of his first son, Paul.
- Performance of Cuadro Flamenco (music by Manuel de Falla, decor and costumes by Picasso).
- Sale of Wilhem Uhde and D-H Kahnweiler’s collections plundered during the war. 
- Spend summer in Fontainebleau with Olga and Paul.
- Exhibition in London.

1922 :
- First monograph on Picasso by Maurice Raynall.
- Summer vocation in Dinard with Olga and Paul.
- Décor for “Antigone”, by Cocteau after Sophocles.

1923 :
- Familial summer at the Cap d’Antibes.

1924 :
- Collector Jacques Doucet buys “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” on André Breton’s advice.
- Opening performance of Mercure (music by Satie, choreography by Massine, décor and costumes by Picasso). Dadaists call Picasso an “Old pompous”.
- Aragon, Breton, Desnos, Ernst and Poulenc take his defence in Paris-Journal. 
- Opening performance of the Train Bleu (music by Darius Milhaud, libretto by Cocteau, décor by Laurens, costumes by Chanel, choreography by Nijinska, curtain after a painting by Picasso).
- Summer in Juan-Les-Pins. 

1925 :
- Stays in Monte-Calo with the Ballets Russes.
- Takes part in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre in Paris with Arp, De Chirico, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, André Masson and Joan Miro. 
- “THE KISS” and “The Dance” mark a stylistic renewal and the end of Neo-classicism. 
- Beginning of the metamorphoses of female bodies, especially bathers. 

1926 :
- Beginning of his friendships with publisher Christian Zervos who founds the magazine Cahier d’Art. 
- Summer in Juan-Les-Pins and Antibes.
- In autumn, travels to Barcelona with Olga.

 
1927 :
- Meets Marie-Therese Walter.
- Summer in Cannes with Olga and Paulo.
- Beginning of first plates for the “Chef d’oeuvre inconnu” published by Vollard in 1931. 

1928 :
- 1st appearance of his famous alter ego the Minotaur.  
- Collaboration with friend Spanish sculptor Julio Gonzalez with whom he makes project for monument to Apollinaire. 
- Vocations Dinard with Olga, Paulo and-secretly- Marie-Therese
 

1929 :
- Meets Salvador Dali. 
 

1930 :
- The magazine Documents publishes a special issue about Picasso.
- New studio in Boisgeloup, in the North West of Paris, enables him to work actively on sculpture.
- Summer in Juan-Les-Pins.
- Marie-Therese moves into 44 rue de la Boétie. 
- Receives the Carnegie Prize for “Profile of Olga”.