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Pablo Picasso. The Old Guitarist.
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1903. Oil On Panel.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
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The Old Guitarist is a picture by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1903, just after the suicide death of Picasso's close friend, Casagemas.
Picasso's “Blue Period” spanned the years of 1901–1904, and was followed by his “Rose Period”. These periods were both precursors to Cubism,
which defined much of Picasso's career.
The Old Guitarist depicts a blind man, clad in tattered rags, huddled about his guitar. The figure is reportedly modeled after Senor Sebastian Mazzarella,
the blind artist who mentored Picasso in his earlier days in Madrid. The composition may have been influenced by George Frederic Watts's painting Hope.
This work was created in Madrid, and the distorted style (note that the upper torso of the guitarist seems to be reclining, while the bottom half
appears to be sitting cross-legged) is reminiscent of the works of El Greco.
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