Carles Casagemas

Carles Antoni Cosme Damià Casagemas i Coll (Carlos Casagemas) (September 27, 1880, in Barcelona – February 17, 1901, in Paris, France) is a Catalan painter and poet.

He is known for his friendship with Pablo Picasso, who paints several portraits of Casagemas.

They travel  around Spain and eventually to Paris, where they live together in a vacant studio.

Casagemas falls in love with Germaine, a model they had portrayed; however, Casagemas is unable to consummate the relationship due to impotence.

This, along with his descent into depression and mood swings, lead to several suicide attempts.

Casagemas attempts suicide once more in a Paris cafe, during a farewell dinner party he holds for himself.

This time he is successful and Casagemas dies at a hospital later that evening.

This event is widely recognized as inspiring Picasso's Blue Period.

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