Pablo Picasso's Catalan artist and writer friends…
February 1900 CE
In addition, there is a dark, moody "modernista" painting, Last Moments (later painted over), showing the visit of a priest to the bedside of a dying woman, a work that is accepted for the Spanish section of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in that year.
Eager to see his own work in place and to experience Paris firsthand, Picasso sets off in the company of his studio-mate Carles Casagemas (Portrait of Carles Casagemas, 1899) to conquer, if not Paris, at least a corner of Montmartre.