Pablo Picasso - Old Beggar with a Boy, 19031903, Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia
Picasso's Blue PeriodPicasso's personal life was very difficult at the beginning of the 20th Century, as well as being a late teen, away from home for the first time, and living in very poor conditions, his close friend Casagemas committed suicide. This tragic loss added another layer to the psychological depths of the paintings from the Blue Period. |
