Attributed to Pablo Picasso, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 16"WX20"H framed, good condition Biography: Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Picasso was born at 23:15 on 25 October 1881, in the city of Málaga, Andalusia, in southern Spain.He was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López.Picasso's family was of middle-class background. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life, Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum.Ruiz's ancestors were minor aristocrats.