Pablo Picasso in Barcelona - 2

Pablo Picasso in the Picasso Museum, Barcelona - 2

This is the second post of the Picasso Museum, you can see the first one here

The Blue Period:

In the autumn 1901, while staying in Paris for the second time, Picasso fell into a period of deep introspection triggered by the suicide of his friend Carles Casagemas, which formally marked the beginning of his so-called Blue Period. Tinged with an intense, omnipresent blue in consonance with the artist's state of mind, most of the works from that time, have marginalised individuals as their protagonists, sometimes doubled into themselves, sometimes with signs of cold, hunger, desperation or illness marked on their bodies, through which Picasso seems to want to draw up a symbolic record of human misery in all its forms. 

Barcelona Rooftops, 1902, (oil on canvas)

Sebastian Junyent i Sans, 1903, (oil on canvas)

Female Nude, 1903, (oil on canvas)

The Dead Woman, 1903, (oil on canvas)

Woman with a Bonnet, 1901, (oil on canvas)

Jaume Sabartes with Pince-Nez, 1901, (oil on canvas)

Interlude in Pink:

The works Picasso produced in 1905 show that the artist had entered a new period, in which varied, intense and warm pink tones had gained ground.

Madame Canals, 1905, (oil and charcoal on canvas)

Head of a Young Woman, 1906, (oil on canvas)

Woman and Child by the Sea, 1902, (oil on panel)

Forms of Desire:

Many of these images are openly pornographic and Picasso drew them on the calling cards of the business run by his friends Carles and Sebastia Junver Vidal, undoubtedly as youthful pranks.

Reclining  Nude, with Frontal Gaze, 1902-03, (pen and ink and wash on paper)

Carles Casagemas Naked, 1903, (pen and ink and blue pencil on an advertising postcard)

On the Road to Cubism:

Gored Horse, 1917, (graphite pencil on canvas with ochre primer)

Blanquita Suarez, 1917, (oil on canvas)

Woman in an Armchair, 1917, (oil onn canvas)

Man with Fruit Bowl, 1917, (oil on canvas)

Seated Man, 1917, (oil on canvas)

Still Life with Glass and Packet of Tobacco, 1924, (oil on canvas)

Jaume Sabartes with Ruff and Bonnet, 1939, (oil on canvas)

Vase, 1943, (ink and wash on paper)

Owl with Chair on Ochre Background, 1947, (lithograph)

Black Pitcher and Skull, 1946, (lithograph)

Painter at Work, 1965, (oil an Ripolin on canvas)

Pigeons:

From 9 to 16 September 1957, Picasso took a break from analysing and interpreting Las Meninas (post to follow) and focused instead on the dovecote on the balcony in his studio. He always considered this group of works as part of Las Meninas series.

The pigeons, 1957, (oil on canvas)

The pigeons, 1957, (oil on canvas)

The pigeons, 1957, (oil on canvas)

The pigeons, 1957, (oil on canvas)