L attente picasso biography

Pablo Picasso went on his second trip to Paris in June 1901 to prepare an exhibition of his recent work, together with the Basque painter Francisco Iturrino, in the Vollard Gallery. Organised by the young Catalan dealer Pere Mañach, the exhibition opened on June 25th.
The oil paintings presented were characterised by the exalted colouring, applied in some cases with thick and cleaved paint brushes, exposing the bare support, and in other cases by means of uniform surfaces delimited by a stroke of dark paint that avoided the dissolution of form, in a very personal style that lets you see traces of Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin.

The theme dealt with everything from everyday topics to the characters of the Bohemian and night life, especially “the courtesans in the café and the theatre”, according to the words of the critic Gustavo Coquiot in the article about the exhibition published in Le Journal on June 17th 1901.

Without doubt, the work The Wait (Margot) is o