Pablo Picasso - When the Roses Bloomed

Between 1901 and 1904, Pablo Picasso’s work was defined by an immense sadness.

The young artist was living in poverty - struggling to come to terms with the fact that a painter’s life in Paris was nowhere near the exciting idyll he had hoped it would be.

And following the death of his best friend Carles Casagemas (who had shot himself after mistakenly bel…