PABLO PICASSO (Málaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973).Untitled, 1960.Wax and ink on paper.Signed, dated and dedicated to Miquel Gaspar.Measurements: 19.5 x 28 cm; 44 x 51.5 cm (frame).The gallery owners Joan and Miguel Gaspar had come into contact with Picasso in November 1955, when they accompanied Jaime Sabartés to the La Californie estate in Cannes. From then on they maintained a close relationship with Picasso, becoming pioneers in the presentation of his work in Franco's Spain. In 1957 they organized the first Picasso exhibition held in Spain since the Civil War in their gallery on Consejo de Ciento Street, allowing the Spanish public to follow the evolution of his work when it was practically absent from official museums. Precisely five years after this first meeting between the Gaspar brothers and Picasso, the artist from Malaga produced the work we present here.Papeles de Son Armadans is a Mallorcan magazine founded and directed by Camilo José Cela. It was published monthly from 1956 to 1979. In this space is collected the extensive list of authors who collaborated in it, more than a thousand, detailing the titles of their works and the covers of each of the issues.Creator of cubism together with Braque, Picasso's painting was a turning point in the history of art. He began his studies in 1895, at the Provincial School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, and only two years later he had his first individual exhibition, at the café "Els Quatre Gats". After several short stays in Paris, Picasso settled permanently in the French capital in 1904. After his blue and pink periods, developed in the early years of the century, the painter began his geometrical experiments in 1906, during a stay in Lérida. A year later he began to paint "Las señoritas de la calle Avinyó", and in 1909 he came into contact with Braque and began his cubist period. During the second decade he developed his classical period, and created his famous sets for Diaghilev's Russian ballets. In 1936 he was appointed director of the Prado Museum by the Government of the Spanish Republic, and a year later he painted "Guernica". The definitive international recognition will come in 1939, as a result of the retrospective dedicated to him by the MOMA in New York. During the following decades, anthological exhibitions will be dedicated to him all over the world, in Rome, Milan, Paris, Cologne and New York, among many other cities. He is represented in the most important museums around the world, such as the Metropolitan, the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.