©Pablo Picasso - Breakfast of a Blind Man 1903
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Breakfast of a Blind Man 1903
94x95cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
This striking painting is one of Picasso's most moving pictures from his Blue Period, so named for the blue coloration that permeated his work at the time (autumn 1901-mid-1904). Frequently he depicted solitary figures set against almost empty backgrounds, the blue palette imparting a mood of melancholy and desolation to images that suggest unhappiness and dejection, poverty, despondency, and despair. Most prevalent among his subjects were the old, the destitute, the blind, the homeless, and the otherwise underprivileged outcasts of society.