This school, located at No. 20 Calle Comedias, was run by Emilio Gutiérrez, and we know, from Picasso himself, how his nanny, Carmen Mendoza – model for one of his youthful drawings – would have to drag him there every morning. The time Picasso spent at this private school is full of memories. As an old man, he recounted to his biographers and friends how he spent hours drawing and staring out the window, how he escaped to visit the headmaster’s wife in the same building, and the personal objects belonging to his father that he would take to class with him (a brush, a cane, a dove…) to make sure that they would come and collect him at one in the afternoon.
In the 20th Century, the site of this school, the Escuela de San Pedro and San Rafael, moved to the Plaza de San Francisco, where the Artistic and Literary Lyceum of Málaga was also located. Currently this building is not open to the public.