He moved to Paris in 1904 and began painting in essentially the Symbolist style. He used the color blue to express a feeling of melancholy along with slow moving, sinuous, and elongated linearity as seen in the painting The Old Guitarist (1903). Most of his subjects were either poor or handicapped in some way to reinforce this feeling of melancholy he evoked. Then, by mid 1905, he abandoned the 'blue' paintings and completed a series of rose-colored works on the theme of circus people which was inspired by his frequent visits to the Medrano Circus with his artist friends (Art of the Western World Study Guide. Stewart, Macek, Gealt, & Jaffe. 1989). The Family of Saltimbanques portrayed a group of six figures which some feel was a precursor for his most famous painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

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