The blue period

I used to have sympathy for Picasso’s blue period. For his depression, for the trauma caused by the suicide of his good friend, and for having to live in very poor conditions while being away from home. Not anymore.

Reading “Dora Maar – with and without Picasso” I’ve understood that, later in life, he did his best to make Dora’s life a blue period. Successful man that Picasso was! And honest too, as he once told his lover:  ” for me there are two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats”…