Picasso: 70 years of art

Created in the early 1900s, "The Old Guitarist" is a landmark painting of Picasso's Blue Period, when the artist used primarily shades of blue as a reflection of his somber mood. Recent X-ray and infrared examinations found that different figures were hidden behind the old guitarist.

Painted between 1905 and 1906, the painting features the trademark pink hues of Picasso's Rose Period. The American writer was a patron of avant-garde European art and played a key role in making Picasso famous.

Considered a pioneering example of cubism, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (The Young Ladies of Avignon) was completed in 1907 and created controversy for its bizarre representation of women's bodies and dispersed perspective.

Painted for a 1937 exposition in Paris, this gigantic work was Pablo Picasso's reaction to the Nazi bombing of the Basque town of Guernica that year. The artist used several metaphorical figures, including a bull, a tortured horse, a weeping woman holding her dead child and other figures to depict the horrors of war.

Picasso created this painting of his mistress, Dora Maar, in 1941. To him, she symbolized the weeping, suffering woman. Memoirs by Picasso's lover Francoise Gilot in 1967, and his granddaughter, Marina Picasso, in 2001, revealed Picasso's misogynistic attitudes and the pain he inflicted on the women he was with during his lifetime.

This work was completed in 1951 to represent the killings of innocent civilians by US soldiers during the Korean War. Experts believe Picasso was inspired by works like Goya's "The Third of May 1808" (1814) and Edouard Manet's "The Execution of Emperor Maximilian" (1868). Recently, climate activists in Australia glued their hands to Picasso's anti-war work in protest.

Picasso created this lithograph in 1949 using the model of a Milanese pigeon and the image was used to decorate a poster for the 1949 Paris Peace Congress. The creation as well as several other sketches by Picasso featuring doves are still very popular today.