Picasso rose period

Picasso’s Rose Period was one of the earliest phases of his career, but it set the foundation for the incredible art that was to come.

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♔ Pablo Picasso, Mother and child ~ Painted in Paris ~ France

Maternity by Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) was an artistic virtuoso who co-founded Cubism, and produced an astounding 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures during his brilliant 70-year career. Picasso’s unparalleled body of work was so vast, and its phases so unique, that art historians have divided it into specific periods. A child prodigy, Picasso took advanced classes at the Royal Academy of Art in Barcelona when he was only 15. His revolutionary Cubist works, with…

Painting, oils on canvas. A small section from one of Picasso's paintings from his.

The work depicts six saltimbanques, a kind of itinerant circus performer, in a desolate landscape. Family of Saltimbanques is considered the masterpiece of Picasso's Rose Period, sometimes called his circus period. It was painted during a period from late 1904 to early 1906 when Picasso explored themes using the saltimbanque. Picasso frequently attended the Cirque Médrano in Montmartre. The composition groups the saltimbanques together but they seem disconnected and do not look at one…

Simple yet haunting, The Actor is the work with which Picasso ended his obsession with the wretched in favor of the theatrical world of acrobats and saltimbanques. Although the attenuated figure and extraordinary play of hands recall the El Greco-inspired mannerism of the Blue Period, The Actor can be seen as the prologue to the series of works that culminates in the enormous canvas Family of Saltimbanques (1905, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D

Pablo Picasso rose period

A peek at a few highlights of the Christie's global tour of The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller starting in Hong Kong next week.

The sale totaled $646 million, the new record for a single-session, single-owner sale.