Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the Lapin Agile, 1905
Despite the changes in tone and subject associated with the rose period, an air of melancholy remained present in the artist's work from that time. In this piece, Picasso painted himself dressed as a gloomy harlequin in earthy tones of orange and brown at the Lapin Agile, a famous cabaret located in the bohemian neighborhood of Montmartre in Paris. The woman sitting next to the artist is Germaine Pichot, a notorious artist's model.

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