The most Catalan Picasso

He was born in Málaga, spent his childhood in A Coruña, studied for a few years in Madrid, and established himself in Paris, but his years in Barcelona were key to his artistic and personal development. The revelation that opens this section today—the black models in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon were inspired by Romanesque art, not African art, as previously thought—reinforces the idea that his time in Catalonia had a profound influence on some of his most significant works.