A little wonder, every day

Animals were part of Picasso’s everyday world

Great horned owl by Giles Laurent, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. [Source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:004_Great_horned_owl_under_a_Pink_Ip%C3%AA_tree_in_Encontro_das_%C3%81guas_State_Park_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg). Visually checked.

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Great horned owl by Giles Laurent, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. [Source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:004_Great_horned_owl_under_a_Pink_Ip%C3%AA_tree_in_Encontro_das_%C3%81guas_State_Park_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg). Visually checked.

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Pablo Picasso lived alongside many animals; they were more than a list of creatures in his pictures. Museo Picasso Málaga quotes the recollections of photographer Brassaï: at different times the artist had cats, a dog, a monkey, a tortoise and even a tame white mouse nearby. Museum materials also mention Ubu the owl and Esmeralda the goat. This list does not mean that all of them lived in one house at the same time.

Birds, dogs and goats appeared in his drawings, paintings, sculptures and ceramics. Observing living animals gave him familiar forms and characters to transform freely. Still, not every animal image should be treated as a portrait of a particular pet.