In the spring of 1904 Picasso made the decision to move to Paris permanently, and his work reflects a change of sprit and especially a change of intellectual and artistic currents. In Paris Picasso met a new and important friend, Guillaume Apollinaire (a poet), with whom he shared the subject of the traveling circus and saltimbanques. To both the poet and the painter these rootless wandering performers (Girl Balancing on a Ball, 1905, The Actor, 1905) became a kind of evocation of the artist’s position in modern society. Picasso specifically made this identification in Family of Saltimbanques (1905), where he assumes the role of the Harlequin and Apolinaire is the strongman.
The Acrobats
1905 Family of Saltimbanques (study)
At the end of 1904 Fernande Olivier became Picasso’s mistress. She inspired many works leading up to Cubism such as, Woman with Loaves, 1906, including the sculpture Head of a Woman (1909), and several paintings related to it, Woman with Pears, 1909.
In the so-called the Rose Period from late 1904 to 1906 Picasso replaced the tones of the Blue Period to more Spanish (monochromatic) palette by those of pottery, of flesh and the earth itself. He seems to have been working with colour in an attempt to come closer to sculpture form.
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