Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, died in 1973 at the age of 91.
Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at Mougins, France, of pulmonary edoema and heart failure, while entertaining guests for supper. He was laid to rest in the Château de Vauvenargues near Aix-en-Provence, which he had purchased in 1958 and shared with Jacqueline between 1959 and 1962. Jacqueline refused to allow his children, Claude and Paloma, to attend the burial. Devastated and lonely following Picasso's death, Jacqueline committed herself by gunshot in 1986, at the age of 59.
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