Pablo Picasso was one of the titans of Twentieth Century art. His paintings blazed the trail for every other painter from the years 1901 to 1953. All artists, of whatever stripe, owe something to Picasso’s elastic and protean spirit and work.
Yet this larger-than-life and pugnacious man fell into a deep depression in the year 1901, stemming, in part, from the death of his closest Spanish friend, Carlos Casagemas. His suicide plunged Picasso into a spiritual and artistic crisis that art historians now call his ‘Blue Period.’
For four years, Picasso painted only doleful subjects in a monochrome of blue and blue-green. He drank heavily and became carelessly promiscuous. His friends and his art dealers despaired of pulling him out of his funk, and his work began to lose its appeal in the French market.
One day, so the story goes, Picasso met his friend, the journalist Max Jacob, at a Parisian bistro for a drink, and became intrigued by Jacob’s use of a few drops of fennel oil in a glass of water as a substitute for the highly toxic alcoholic absinthe that Picasso was drinking. Jacob explained to Picasso that his doctor had told him to quit drinking alcohol completely and use fennel leaves in salads and fennel oil in water to relieve his fatigue and melancholy. It would also, the doctor promised, significantly improve his digestion.
Picasso impulsively threw his glass of absinthe into the street and began using fennel oil, giving up all alcohol except for an occasional glass of Spanish wine when with friends. This coincided with the start of his famous ‘Rose Period’, when his painting began to take on the heady colors of a carnival.
Was it the fennel oil that turned things around for Picasso? He never sought any medical or spiritual help for his deep depression during those four years. Those who knew him best during those years were at a loss to explain what finally brought him up out of the depths -- except for Max Jacob. He went on to a successful journalistic career in France and then Canada, and always claimed that what saved Picasso from becoming just a footnote in Art History was his use of fennel oil to fight off bilious depression.
Today fennel oil is recognized as a safe and reliable appetite suppressant, especially for the sweet tooth. It is used on the skin to enhance smoothness and hydration. And its’ licorice-like flavor is a favorite with French bakers in the making of pastries and by French doctors for curing dyspepsia.
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