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While Pablo Picasso's Gosolian work is on display at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, under the Coll de Josa, next to the Gósol fields, the rows of poplar trees shine in autumn yellow, as we see in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos .
These trees also pay homage, in their own way, to the brilliant painter who died half a century ago and who, in this place in Berguedà, revolutionized universal art in the summer of 1906.
The Coll de Josa is a port situated astride the comarca of Berguedà and Alt Urgell passing through the foot of the Pedraforca massif. Gósol, located at the foot of this mountain, was the place recommended to Pablo Picasso by doctors to improve his health.
Precisely, in this town we find the Picasso Museum of Gósol, an emblematic cultural symbol of this town. The artist settled in the only existing tavern, Cal Tampanada, which at that time was owned by Josep Fontdevila.
Gósol contributed to Picasso's art with a rethinking of the figure and sculpture, as well as a totally different way of working with the human body. Some changes that can be seen not only in the oil paintings he made there, but also in numerous drawings of peasants from the town that also reveal his interest in the rural world and its inhabitants.
