Word: ruiz
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However, if the father of Pablo Picasso was, as you report, Blasco Ruiz and his mother's name was Maria Picasso, then his name would have been Pablo Ruiz y Picasso which will explain why he is known by his mother's name. Now, if he had been born out of wedlock, his name would have been Pablo Picasso, and his father's name would not have appeared in his name...
...have heard that Picasso selected his mother's name instead of his father's name because Picasso was more musical than Ruiz...
University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky. > Ruiz y Picasso...
Spain Picasso was born in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, 57 years ago last October 25, of a Basque drawing teacher named Blasco Ruiz and an Italian mother Maria Picasso. By the Spanish order of patronymics his name was Pablo Picasso y Ruiz, and he so signed his earliest pictures...
BURGOS JUSTICE - Ruiz Vilaplana - Knopf ($2). Revelations of an ex-Com missioner of Justice of Burgos, Spain, who first supported the rebels, turned against them because of atrocities and the dominance of German and Italian influence. Good accounts of day-to-day life behind rebel lines at the beginning of the civil war, weakened by dull speculations, sketchy historical passages...