Picasso in France

•His life in France• (Sandra)

Picasso and Apollinaire was arrested on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911.
After the liberation of Paris in 1944, Picasso began to keep company with a young art student. The two eventually became lovers, and had two children together, Claude and Paloma. Unique among Picasso’s women, Picasso in 1953, allegedly
because of abusive treatment and infidelities. Was very difficult for Picasso.
Picasso had constructed a huge gothic structure.
Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in France, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner. His final words were
“Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more”.













·-Picasso in France (Sheila)

In France, Picasso embarked in his blue period. Blue period is called because the majority of the colors in the paintings are blue. In this period Picasso's paintings show the desperation, the loneliness and the tragedy.
Picasso was painting in blue because he was sad for the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas in 1901. They were two good friends; they were worked together in France. Picasso started painting in cold, melancholy colors, and blues. The death of his friend gave place to the blue period. The pictures of this epoch show Picasso's pity for the poor and destroyed persons. The blue color seemed to be to him adapted to express his feelings of a sorrow and of pain. This is the first picture by Picasso In his blue period.