Germaine Pichot

Pablo Picasso, La Vie 1903, Cleveland Museum of Art. From 1901 to 1903, during his Blue Period Picasso painted several posthumous portraits of his friend Casagemas and the unrequited love for Germaine Picho in the painting, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie.[1]

Germaine Pichot (Germaine Pichot in French) (1880 in Paris – 1948 in Paris, France) was a Lover to Carles Casagemas i Coll, the artist, student, painter and poet, best known for his friendship with Pablo Picasso. Picasso and Casagemas first met at the Barcelona café Els Quatre Gats.

After Germaine separated from Carlos Casagemas in 1901, it caused Carlos Casagemas to have an immense depression that made him commit suicide by shooting himself and attempting to shoot Germaine herself.

The assault shot that came from Carles missed his former lover, and then he shot himself.


  1. ↑ Wattenmaker, Richard J.; Distel, Anne, et al. (1993). Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40963-7 p. 304.
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