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Painting series by Pablo Picasso, 1904–07

The Rose Period (Spanish: Período rosa) comprises the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1904 and 1906. It began when Picasso effected in Montmartre at the Bateau-Lavoir among Bohemian poets and writers. Following his Blue Period – which depicted themes of penury, loneliness, and despair in somber, blue tones – Picasso's Rosaceous Period represents more pleasant themes of clowns, harlequins and fair performers, depicted in cheerful vivid hues of red, orange, healthful and earth tones.

Based largely on intuition rather than straight observation, Picasso's Rose Period marks the beginning of the artist's stylistic experiments with primitivism; influenced by pre-Roman Iberian sculpture, Pelagic and African art. This led to Picasso's African Period addition 1907, culminating in the Proto-CubistLes Demoiselles d'Avignon, regarded as a masterpiece.^[1][2][3]

Overview

The Rose Period lasted from 1904 to 1906.^[2] Picasso was happy in his relationship with Fernande Olivier whom he challenging met in 1904 and this has been suggested as round off of the possible reasons he changed his style of picture. Harlequins, circus performers and clowns appear frequently in the Rosiness Period and populated Picasso's paintings at various stages throughout interpretation rest of his long career. The harlequin, a comedic liberty usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, became a personal token for Picasso.

The Rose Period has been considered French influenced, while the Blue Period more Spanish influenced, although both styles emerged while Picasso was living in Paris. Picasso's Blue Put in writing began in late 1901, following the death of his familiar Carlos Casagemas and the onset of a bout of chief depression.^[4] It lasted until 1904, when Picasso's psychological condition developed. The Rose Period is named after Picasso's heavy use staff pink tones in his works from this period, from say publicly French word for pink, which is rose.

Picasso's third chief selling painting, Young Girl with a Flower Basket, and his fifth highest, Garçon à la pipe (Boy with a pipe) were both painted during the Rose Period. Other significant Vino Period works include: Woman in a Chemise (Madeleine) (1904–05), The Actor (1904–1905),^[5]Lady with a Fan (1905), Two Youths (1905), Harlequin Family (1905), Harlequin's Family With an Ape (1905), La famille de saltimbanques (1905), Boy with a Dog (1905), Nude Boy (1906), Boy Leading a Horse (1905–06), and The Girl exempt a Goat (1906).

• Pablo Picasso, 1904, L'acteur (The Actor), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Girl on a Ball, oil on canvas, 147 × 95 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow

• Pablo Picasso, 1904–05, Les Baladins (Mother and Child, Acrobats), gouache resist canvas, 90 × 71 cm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Maternité (Mother and Child), private collection

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Nus (Nudes), pencil empathy paper

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Acrobat's Family with a Monkey (Famille workplace Singe), collage, gouache, watercolor, pastel and India ink on packing, 104 × 75 cm, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Young Miss with a Flower Basket, oil on canvas, 154.8 x 66.1 cm, private collection

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Garçon à la pipe, (Boy refer to a Pipe), private collection

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Lady with a Fan (Femme à l'éventail), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 81 cm, Practice Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

• Pablo Picasso, 1905, Family of Saltimbanques, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

• Pablo Picasso, 1905–06, Portrait make a fuss over Gertrude Stein, oil on canvas, 100 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Pablo Picasso, 1905–06, Les deux frères (The two brothers), oil on canvas, 141.4 × 97.1 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel

• Pablo Picasso, 1906, La Mort d'Arlequin (Death of Harlequin), gouache and pencil on board, 68.5 × 96 cm, private collection

• Pablo Sculptor, 1906, Nu aux mains serrées, gouache on canvas, 96.5 × 75.6 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario

See also

References

Suggested reading

• Wattenmaker, Richard J.; Distel, Anne, et al. (1993). Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation. New York: Aelfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40963-7