A painter and poet, he accompanied Picasso to Paris to visit the World's Fair in autumn 1900. There, he fell in love with Laure Gargallo, known as Germaine, who ultimately spurned his affections. In despair, Casagemas committed suicide on February 17, 1901, after first attempting to kill Germaine.
Casagemas' suicide, the result of a failed romance, in Paris in 1901 was a seismic event for the young Picasso and, to an extent, gave impetus to the origins of the artist's melancholy Blue Period.
ON SUNDAY, February 17, 1901, at approximately 9 PM, Carlos Casagemas committed suicide at L'Hippodrome Café, 128 Boulevard de Clichy, in Paris, France, by shooting himself in the right temple.
In 1901, Pablo Picasso created The Death of Casagemas in Paris to commemorate his friend, Carles Casagemas, who committed suicide following a failed romantic relationship. This tragic incident marked the beginning of Picasso's Blue Period, characterized by melancholic blue hues and subdued tones of gray and green.
Friends. In 1898, when Picasso returned to Barcelona, he began to frequent the pub Els Quatre Gats, an emblem of modern Bohemia, where he would have his first individual exhibition. Picasso made friends with Jaime Sabartés and Carlos Casagemas here.
It was a quote from Picasso, from the last night of his life. Apparently, he had said to his friends, 'Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore,' and then gone to bed and died in his sleep.
The figure of the Weeping Woman is based on artist and photographer Dora Maar.
Pablo Picasso worked up until the day he died at age 91, literally painting until 3 a.m., hours before his death on Sunday, April 8, 1973. His last well-known self-portrait, entitled Self Portrait Facing Death, was completed less than a year before his passing.
Picasso, giant of art, dies at 91
He was 91 and had been ill for some weeks. A doctor called from the small village of Mougins, near Cannes, early in the morning said: “It was already too late when I arrived.” The cause of death was given as lung congestion.
A court-appointed auditor who evaluated Picasso's assets after his death said that he was worth between $100-$250 million (about $530 million to $1.3 billion today, after adjusting for inflation). In addition to his art, his heirs were fighting over the rights to license his image rights.
There are four oil painting versions of The Weeping Woman, all painted between September and October, 1937, as well as a range of drawings on the subject. The most famous painting is held in the Tate Gallery in London. A second version, said by some to be the next best, is held by the National Gallery of Victoria.
Two climate activists with Extinction Rebellion were arrested Sunday after gluing themselves to a Picasso painting at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
On 8 April 1973, he died of a heart attack at his home near Cannes.
After months after Marina was born, Paulo quitted Emilienne to marry Christine Paulpin, with whom he had one sone, Bernard Picasso (1959). Paulo died of liver cancer two years after Pablito's terrible suicide by drinking bleach.
In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria.
In April 1907, Olivier went to a local orphanage and adopted a 13-year-old girl, Raymonde. The small family did not last, however, and upon discovering explicit drawings of Raymonde made by Picasso, Olivier sent the girl back to the orphanage.
Contrary to what James Cameron would have you believe, when the Titanic hit an iceberg on 14 April 1912, there were no Picassos or Monets aboard. The most notable work of art that succumbed to the icy waters of the Atlantic was La Circassienne au Bain (1814) by Merry-Joseph Blondel.
All were produced by one of only seven legendary painters: Willem de Kooning or James Brooks, who were both eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer's; Salvador Dalí or Norval Morrisseau, who both developed Parkinson's disease; and Marc Chagall, Claude Monet, or Pablo Picasso, three masters who did not suffer from any ...
Pablo Picasso holds the record for the artist with the most stolen artworks in the world, with more than 1,000 of his artworks reported missing.
Picasso would call him “the father of us all”. But it was Vincent van Gogh whom Picasso considered to be his main inspiration at a later stage of his career.
His works are held in the major art collections around the world as well as many museums devoted exclusively to his oeuvre including Musée Picasso, Paris, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Musée Picasso, Antibes, and the Museo Picasso Málaga.
In the summer of 1932, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was in love. Not with his wife, the fractious and increasingly unstable Russian ballerina Olga, but with a young woman of 22 called Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909-1977). They met by chance outside the Galeries Lafayette in 1927, and soon became lovers.
Marie-Thérèse Walter was perhaps the greatest love of Picasso's life. She was gentle, obedient, and served as the inspiration for some of his most sensual art—paintings and sculptures.
The Picasso that was kidnapped from the NGV with Stuart Semple Just the Gist. On August 4th, 1986, it was discovered that the most expensive painting in Australia, 'The Weeping Woman' by Pablo Picasso, was missing from the National Gallery of Victoria's collection.