At the end of the street, next to the church of the same name, there used to be the old convent and college of San Agustín. This building has a long history. Its walls once housed the seminary of San Juan de Dios, the monastery of the Augustinian Fathers, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Málaga, Malaga’s archive and the Municipal Museum.

Picasso’s father worked at the Municipal Museum as a curator of the paintings on public display. He also had his painting workshop here (rumour has it, they let him have it in compensation for salary delays). Pablo spent a lot of time in his father's workshop, which he described as “a room like any other, nothing special about it: a little dirtier, if anything, than the one I had at home; but it was quiet there”. Some sources say that it was here that Pablo’s father taught his son how to draw pigeons. 

Pigeons, 1890 (Pablo was 9 years old), pencil on paper, now in Barcelona Picasso Museum

One of the first oil paintings by Pablo - View of the port of Málaga (1890) - was copied from the one made by his father, in turn reproduced from the one painted in 1878 by the seascape painter Emilio Ocón. 

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