This Blue Period was inspired in 1901 in part by the suicide of Spanish painter Carlos Casagemas, who was a good friend of Picasso's, the Courtland said. Picasso took over the rooms where ...

A captivating secret has emerged from one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous Blue Period paintings. Hidden beneath 'Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto' (1901) is an earlier painting of an ...