This day in history: First exhibition by 19-year-old Pablo Picasso opens in Paris
On June 24, 1901, the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's artwork opened at a Paris gallery.
According to History.com, The 19-year-old Spaniard was relatively unknown outside Barcelona, but he had already produced hundreds of paintings. The 75 works displayed at Picasso's first Paris exhibition offered moody, representational paintings by a young artist with obvious talent.
Today, Pablo Picasso is equally as important and loved -- Artdaily.org notes that a piece of art, entitled 'Self Portrait with Palette,' is on display during the opening of an exhibition, entitled 'Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907,' at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The exhibition presenting Picasso artworks from private collections and international museums opens to the public from February 18 to May 29, 2015.
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