Self-portrait 1901 (Picasso)
The Autoportrait (painted in 1901) is a table carried out by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso during its “blue period” (1901 to 1903).
This period begins after the suicide from one from its friendly close relations, Carlos Casagemas, which much will affect it and influence it (it will make the portrait of it on his bed of died in 1901). Haunted by death, it starts a series of practically monochromatic tables blue beginning in 1901 with the Woman in blue and finishing by the Life in 1903. For Picasso, the blue color expresses misery, old age, the death and the coldness of the world, as the portraits carried out do not testify deurant this period: old man, loose women, blind man or beggar…
The Autoportrait is an oil on fabric of 81x60 cm, preserved at the Picasso museum of Paris following the donation carried out after the death of the painter. Picasso is represented like a solitary character, given up, pauper, vêtu of a broad coat dark blue. It is three-quarter on the right table, leaving a space all along the left band. Picasso has an empty glance, nevertheless directed towards the spectator. On this date, it is only 20 years old and voluntarily appears on this painting much older. In the content, no landscape appears but right a color light blue, a little greenish. Its hair, very dark, whose color is nearly identical to that of the coat, seems this one just like to be very schematized without any detail.
Image of the Museum of Picasso
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