Picaso

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works by the
Spanish artist El Greco.
IV ROSE PERIOD
Shortly after settling in Paris in a shabby building known as the Bateau-Lavoir
("laundry barge," which it resembled), Picasso met Fernande Olivier, the first of
many companions to influence the theme, style, and mood of his work. With this
happy relationship, Picasso changed his palette to pinks and reds; the years 1904
and 1905 are thus called the Rose Period. Many of his subjects were drawn from
the circus, which he visited several times a week; one such painting is Family of
Saltimbanques (1905, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.). In the figure of the
harlequin, Picasso represented his alter ego, a practice he repeated in later works
as well. Dating from his first decade in Paris are friendships with the poet Max
Jacob, the writer Guillaume Apollinaire, the art dealers Ambroise Vollard and
Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, and the American expatriate writers Gertrude Stein and
her brother Leo, who were his first important patrons; Picasso did portraits of
them all.
V PROTOCUBISM
In the summer of 1906, during Picasso's stay in Gósol, Spain, his work entered a
new phase, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian, and African art....