Over the course of three years, Picasso diverged from painting convention, utilizing expressive brushwork and a now famously moody blue-green palette. His Blue Period paintings have become widely ...

Picasso said the suicide of a friend, Carles Casagemas, prompted the shift to a more somber palette. ForbesLong-Buried Secret Exposed Under 16th-Century Titian Painting Of JesusBy Leslie Katz ...

The portrait, marked by Picasso’s sombre blue and green palette, was thought to be one of the defining works of the artist's melancholic period, which lasted from 1901 to 1904. But thanks to X ...