Tyto Alba takes us through the enigmatic friendship between Picasso and Casagemas during their horseback journey from Malaga to Paris

Casagemas, who comes from a well-off family, welcomes Picasso into his home and takes him under his wing. It’s his father’s money that pro-vides for the friends’ tickets to Paris. The healthy rivalry between both friends slowly starts turning sour, partly due to them being joined by Ger-maine: a Parisian girl who is extremely liberal in her views, a total clash with the Spanish men-tality of the period. Casagemas’ suicide shakes Picasso’s world up into a state of deep depres-sion, resulting in what we now know as the Blue Period.