Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973

Picasso's first style is influenced by El Greco, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec, who he discovered as a student in Barcelona. Fascinated by psychological expression. Picasso, in his Blue Period (1901-1904), expressed moral misery: his genre scenes, still lifes and portraits stained with melancholy. Picasso's passions then turned to the figures of acrobats--the Rose period. From 1904, the date of his arrival in Paris, his aesthetic evolved considerably. In addition to a selection of Picasso's early paintings, this book presents numerous drawings sculptors and photographs rarely published before.