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Pablo Picasso - The Absinthe Drinker 1901. Picasso produced this work in the autumn of 1901, during his
second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old. The theme of man's loneliness in a cafe, of isolation and
emptiness, was not new to French art in the second half of the 19th century and could be found in the works
of Degas and of Picasso's much-admired Toulouse-Lautrec. But in the paintings by the young Spaniard the
theme acquired a previously unknown sense of drama. - art-Picasso.com