The artist, who painted until the last days of his life, has received the condolences of friends, museums and even the Spanish government
Pablo Picasso he died 50 years ago, on April 8, 1973. A cause of his death it was a heart attackderiving from a pulmonary edema (accumulation of fluid in the lungs) that afflicted him in his last moments. The accident happened around 11.40am and a doctor was called, but there was nothing he could do when he arrived.
Picasso is said to have painted until the eve of his death. “They say I’m tired, that I don’t work anymore. They say I’m sick. Well, you’ll see”, he said, about 20 days before his death, thinking of the exhibitions he would have held in Avignon and Nice in France, where he has resided since 1904 (l artist was born in 1881).
The painter’s death caused widespread repercussions at the time. The poet Pablo Neruda mourned the death of what he called his “older brother”: “When I lived in Vallauris, I think I was one of the few people who gave the key to his studio to enter at any time. The loss for the contemporary the culture is so great… It’s as if a continent, a country, with a city, rivers, houses and people has disappeared. Perhaps in the history of art there has never been such a powerful transformer”.
José LuÃs Vilar Palasi, then Minister of Education in Spain, sent a telegram to Picasso’s family: “I ask you to receive my deepest condolences on the death of the eminent painter Pablo Picasso, illustrious compatriot, glory of art, a name of Spain, which is associated with universal cultural pain”. At that time, the country was still living under Franco’s dictatorship.
Source: Terra
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