3.3. Picasso and the Blue Period(1901-1904) «Femmes à l'éventail» Carlos Casagemas
Influences… Isidre Nonell, «Desolation» 1905  Isidre Nonell
«La Paloma» 1904 «Poor people waiting in line for soup» 1899
El Greco «Self portrait» El Greco 1595-1600 «Laoconte» 1614
«The baptism of Christ» 1608
Catalan Romanesque and Gothic Art
«The suicide of Casagemas» 1901
«Burial of Casagemas» 1901
«Selfportrait» 1901
«Courtesan with pearl necklace» 1902
«Head of a dead woman» 1902-1903
«Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto» 1903
«Portrait of Sebastiá Sunyer with a woman ” 1902
«Two friends»  1904
«La celestina» 1903
“ Sleepy drinker ”  1902  “ Curled up and  thoughtful woman ”  1902
«Motherhood by the sea» 1902-1903
«Motherhood» 1903-1904
«The tragedy» 1903
«Old Jew» 1903
«The old guitarrist» 1903
«The blind» 1903
«Life» 1903
1901 |  Move to Madrid. Casagemas commits suicide in Paris. He founds the magazine  Arte Joven  with Francesc d’Assís Soler which had a print run of 5 editions. He returns to Barcelona and makes a second trip to Paris. From June 25th to July 14th he has his first exhibition in Paris at the Vollard Gallery alongside the Basque painter Francisco Iturrino. He meets the poet Max Jacob. Beginning of the Blue Period. 1902 |  Return to Barcelona and third trip to Paris, where he lives and works short of money in Max Jacob’s room. 1903 |  Return to Barcelona. He begins his studies for  La Vie (Life) , a masterpiece from the Blue Period, presently housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Chronology 1881- 1973

Picasso periodo azul