Picasso Arrives In Paris

The vibrant colors of the Paris art scene, driven by van Gogh, Lautrec, Cezanne, and Gauguin, changed his world forever...

“Head of A Woman” was one of Picasso’s first works after arriving in Paris.

October 19, 1900

Pablo Picasso first arrives in Paris, the center of the European art scene, at the tender age of nineteen. A relative unknown outside Barcelona, he was there to cover the Exposition Universelle, the city’s major art fair.