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Carles Antoni Cosme Damià Casagemas i Coll (Carlos Casagemas) (September 27, 1880, in Barcelona, Spain – February 17, 1901, in Paris, France) was a Spanish painter and poet. He is known for his friendship with Pablo Picasso , who painted several portraits of Casagemas.
The Artist Beneath the Myth. A painter and man of letters, Carles Casagemas (Barcelona, 1880 – Paris, 1901) was a great friend of the young Picasso, whom he accompanied on the latter’s first trip to Paris, where Casagemas committed suicide aged only twenty. Since then, his figure has been so closely linked to Picasso’s life and work that ...
The Death of Casagemas, 1901, 1932 by Pablo Picasso. Picasso arrived in Paris too late to see the large Van Gogh exhibition mounted at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in the last two weeks of March 1901, but he must have seen the paintings owned by Vollard, who had organized a pioneering retrospective in January 1897 and was a major lender to the 1901 show.
In despair, Casagemas committed suicide on February 17, 1901, after first attempting to kill Germaine. Picasso was already back in Barcelona by that time but was deeply affected by the news. Nevertheless, when he returned to Paris in May 1901, he took up residence in Casagemas's former apartment and began a liaison with Germaine.
Carles Casagemas i Coll was a Catalan artist and writer who was born in Barcelona on September 27th 1880 within a bourgeois family. His father, Manuel Casagemas i Llabrós, was General Vice-Consul of the United States of America in Barcelona and Lluïsa Casagemas, one of his sisters, was a well-known composer.
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With the exhibition Casagemas.The Artist Beneath the Myth the Museum claims the work of an artist who died at twenty, at the beginning of the 20th century.Picasso's close friend and Isidro Nonell, a suicide and bohemian artist, the most famous faces of Casagemas has dithering one of the the most singular artists that has given the Catalan art.
Dec 13, 2017 · One of the first he produced, The Death of Casagemas (1901), responded directly to Casagemas’s suicide. The oil-on-wood work shows the poet’s bluish-green face swaddled in white blankets. He looks almost peaceful, as if sleeping, but Picasso’s addition of a bullet hole on his subject’s temple lays the tragedy bare.
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