From: Mona Lisa's Mustache- A Dissection of Modern Art
"As well as longing to be a clown, Picasso in these early days could be found copying the Old Masters in the Louvre and painting in his studio in the manner of Gaugin, Degas, and more often Toulouse-lautrec. So closely did he imitate the last that at first glance some of the paintings of the two artists seem indistinguishable. In 1901, with one eye on El Greco, Picasso painted a series of archly pathetic mothers, dyspeptic femme fatales, and peevish acrobats. This shivering gallery of neuroticism is now quite rightly known as the master's 'blue period'. Between 1905 and 1906, putting these doom-eager Madonnas and emaciated harlequins behind him, he painted a group of neo-Greco-Roman nudes, ususally seen through a haze of terra-cotta pink. These fin-de-siecle tanagras are now known as products of the 'rose period'."
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