Pablo Picasso was an artist.
Guernica is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937 , at his home on Rue des Grands Augustins , in Paris . Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ( The Young Ladies of Avignon , and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon ) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso ( 1881 -- 1973 ) . Pablo Picasso . Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ( 1907 ) , and Guernica ( 1937 ) , a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces .