Picasso's Blue Period was done in hot, bright hues. The painting considered the first of his Blue Period, "Casagemas in His Coffin", was completed later in 1901 when Picasso was sinking into a major depression. Picasso, normally an outgoing socializer, withdrew from his friends. Picasso's bout of depression was to last several years. Picasso's career had been promising before 1901 and early in that year he was making "a splash" in Paris. However, as he moved towards subject matter such as society's poor and outcast, and accented this with a cool, anguished mood with blue hues, the critics and the public turned away
Blue Period (album) 113) This earlier session was Davis' first for Prestige. Although "Blue Period" has never been reissued on compact disc, the tracks "Bluing" and "Out of the Blue" are featured on the currently available "Dig" (PRLP 7012), and two versions of "Blue Room" (including an alternate take) are on the CD of "Miles Davis and Horns" (PRLP 7025). On "Blue Room" Blue Period (album) Blue Period (PRLP 140) is a 1953 10" LP album by Miles Davis, his second released by Prestige Records, recorded over the course of two 1951 recording sessions at New York's Apex Studio. "Bluing" and "Out of