Picasso's Blue Period Picasso's Blue Period The Blue Period () is a term used to define the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904 when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. These somber works, inspired by Spain and painted in Barcelona and Paris, are now some of his most popular works, although he had difficulty selling them at the time. This period's starting point is uncertain; it may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901 or in Paris in the second half of the year. In
Blue-faced honeyeater Latham in his 1801 work "Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae". However, he described it as three separate species, seemingly not knowing it was the same bird in each case: The blue-eared grackle ("Gracula cyanotis"), the blue-cheeked bee-eater ("Merops cyanops"), and as the blue-cheeked thrush ("Turdus cyanous"). It was as the blue-cheeked bee-eater that it was painted between 1788 and 1797 by Thomas Watling, one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter. It was reclassified in the genus "Entomyzon", which was erected by William Swainson in 1825, who observed the "Blue-faced Grakle" as the only insectivorous member