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Yet the pastels and drawings from the Blue and Rose periods that follow, meditations on poverty and the lives of saltimbanques and harlequins, show the young Picasso exploiting his achingly sensitive touch in images that verge on the sentimental.
Portrait of a Restless Artist as a Young Man Karen Wilkin 2011
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Even the saltimbanques, the lowly troupe of acrobats he painted during his early years in Paris, alluded in their costumes to subjects painted by Tiepolo and Watteau.
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It rightly returns to the rep as this small-scale dance-drama about a family of what look like saltimbanques is funny, clever and appealing.
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A few dealers – notably, Ambrose Vollard, astute and fair, and Clovis Sagot, an unscrupulous ex-clown who sold art out of an old apothecary – were scooping up Picasso’s harlequins and saltimbanques for the price of a meal … money was a luxury, and freeloading was a way of life.
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