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The Blue Room (Picasso)
Painting by Pablo Picasso
The Blue Room (French: La chambre bleue) is a 1901 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he painted during his Blue Period.
It depicts a scene of a nude woman bending over in a bath tub. A hidden painting was revealed beneath the surface by x-ray images and infra-red scans, showing a portrait of a bearded man.
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The painting has been housed in The Phillips Collection, in Washington D.C. since 1927.
Background
The Blue Room is considered to be one of the earliest examples of a work from Picasso's Blue Period.
This was an important period in his life when he moved to Paris from Barcelona and showed his paintings at his first solo exhibition at the Vollard Gallery in 1901. Picasso's Blue Period is defined by the artist's preoccupation with images of human suffering, a subject matter that he conveyed in shades of blue.[1]
This was a period of great emotional turmoil for the young artist.
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