![]() Though not a Cubist painting in its truest sense, Les Demoiselles represented a new pictorial idiom that prompted the start of one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century.Ĭubism was jointly created by Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 19. Kahnweiler was awestruck with the realisation that the whole tradition of art had, in that moment, been overturned. There, the German-born art dealer first laid eyes on the largest canvas Picasso had attempted to date, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). In 1907, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler met Picasso in the artist’s Montmartre studio. Living between Barcelona and Paris, Picasso painted powerful portraits of his friends, as well as the needy, the abandoned and the blind, to explore the themes of human misery and social alienation that weighed upon him so heavily during these years. He restricted his palette to cold, sombre colours that evoked dreamlike mystery and sorrow. ![]() As Picasso said, ‘It was thinking about Casagemas’s death that started me painting in blue.’Īt the age of only 21, the young artist found himself desperately poor and depressed. Central to the onset of the Blue Period was the suicide of his close friend and fellow artist, Carles Casagemas. ![]() Here we explore the major styles that defined Picasso’s career - illustrated with works from the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 June 2022, and the Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale on 29 June.Įmerging from a time of immense hardship in the artist’s life, Picasso’s Blue Period lasted from 1901 to 1904. As a result, Picasso’s body of art emerges as a timeline of his own experiences. He devoted his life to art for nearly 80 years, producing more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theatre sets and costumes, in a vast range of styles.Įach major period of Picasso’s art was seemingly defined by the events around him, from his personal tragedies and impassioned love affairs to the socio-political upheavals of Europe. Born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, on 25 October 1881, in Málaga, Spain, Picasso is one of history’s most influential artists.
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