Spanish painter and sculptor who worked mostly in France, co-founded Cubism and painted Guernica (1937). In China his name is shorthand for modern art.
In 1956 the Chinese painter 张大千 visited him in France, a meeting billed as a summit of Eastern and Western art. Picasso asked him to judge his own tries at Chinese ink painting; Zhang said he lacked proper Chinese brushes, and later sent him a pair.