Focus on Girl on a Ball and analyze the Background.
Picasso created Girl on a Ball in 1905 during his Rose Period, at a time when he was living at the dilapidated Bateau-Lavoir in the Montmartre area of Paris. Following on from his bleak Blue Period, Picasso's work now displayed softer, warmer tones, which are evident in this painting.From late 1904 to early 1905, Picasso focused his works on a single motif about the life of a travelling circus that he developed for a large composition at the end of 1904. This era was also known as his Circus Period or Saltimbanque Period. In the second half of 1905, Picasso produced The Family of Saltimbanques, which originally featured a young acrobat balancing on a ball. This central motif was continued in Girl on a Ball just a few months later.
Bateau-Lavoir Family of Saltimbanques Rose Period Blue Period Montmartre The Family of Saltimbanques