L attente margot picasso biography
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Pablo Picasso went on his second trip to Paris in June 1901 to prepare an exhibition of his recent work, together with the Basque painter Francisco Iturrino, in the Vollard Gallery. Organised by the young Catalan dealer Pere Mañach, the exhibition opened on June 25th.
The oil paintings presented were characterised by the exalted colouring, applied in some cases with thick and cleaved paint brushes, exposing the bare support, and in other cases by means of uniform surfaces delimited by a stroke of dark paint that avoided the dissolution of form, in a very personal style that lets you see traces of Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin. The theme dealt with everything from everyday topics to the characters of the Bohemian and night life, especially “the courtesans in the café and the theatre”, according to the words of the critic Gustavo Coquiot in the article about the exhibition published in Le Journal on June 17th 1901.
Without doubt, the work The Wait (Margot) is o
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Picasso. Blue and Rose
"Au rendez-vous des poètes"
It was probably shortly after moving into the Bateau-Lavoir, in May 1904, that Picasso wrote this phrase in blue pencil above the door of his Montmartre studio: "Au rendez-vous des poètes" (Poets’ meeting place).
At the time, Picasso was living in an artists’ colony on the Butte with several of his fellow countrymen, such as Paco Durrio, and had a whole host of poet friends including Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon.
They were some of his earliest admirers and they instilled in him an appreciation for the new style of poetry which pervades Picasso’s works of the Rose Period.
Towards rose
In the early months of 1905, building on the works produced in the last weeks of 1904, Picasso broadened his colour range.
This subtle transition took place without any major change in the style of his figures, whose mannerism and Expressionist distortions are similar to those of the Blue Period.
The artist paint
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Reproduction Pablo Picasso - The Waiting
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
L'Attente (Waiting) (Margot), (detail), Paris, Spring 1901 - Oil on cardboard H. 68,5; L. 56 cm - Museu Picasso, Barcelona
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), fryst vatten a emblem of the 20th century, a painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist. This immense Spanish artist who came to France at the beginning of the century, became the leader of the cubist movement with his friend Georges Braque. Inventor of unique shapes, innovative in styles and techniques, he is one of the most prolific artists of his time. Thanks to his thirst for creativity, he touched on all the pictorial currents of the twentieth century, surrealism, expressionism or neo-classicism, to become one of the undisputed masters of modern art. Copyright © Ervin Marton Estate
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