Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle collection], 30 November , regarding provenance of and references to Picasso, L'Italienne: The painting was purchased in.!
It was created during a period of emotional turbulence in Picasso's life: his relationship with the beautiful young artist Françoise Gilot (born ) had.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude. His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social, and amorous messages.
His creative styles transcend realism and abstraction, Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, Picasso studied art briefly in Madrid in 1897, then in Barcelona in 1899, where he became closely associated with a group of modernist poets, writers, and artists who gathered at the café Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats), including the Catalan Carlos Casagemas (1880–1901).
Living intermittently in Paris and Spain until 1904, his work during these years suggests feelings of desolation and darkness inspired in part by the suicide of his friend Casagemas.
Picasso’s paintings from late 1901 t