THE PICASSO BOOK

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was the most prolific artist in the history of Western art. Born in 1881 in Malaga, southern Spain, he spent almo st all of his life in France, dying in 1973. In more than seven decades as an artist, Picasso finished 2000 oil paintings, along wit h innumerable sculptures, ceramics, collages, prints, photographs, drawings, and jewelry designs.