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Olga Picasso (born Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova; Russian: Ольга Степановна Хохлова; 17 June 1891 – 11 February 1955) was a Russian ballet dancer in the Ballets Russes, directed by Sergei Diaghilev and based in Paris. There she met and married the artist Pablo Picasso, served as one of his early muses, and was the mother of their son, Paul (Paulo).
- Olga Khokhlova. 1917. Picasso and Olga Khokhlova met thanks to impresario Sergei Diaghilev. She was a dancer with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, while Picasso was a set and costume designer for the revolutionary ballet Parade.
- Olga Khokhlova in a mantilla. 1917. The ardent Spaniard was captivated by the beauty and refined manners of his Russian wife. He followed the ballet troupe on a tour of Spain, where he painted one of the most famous portraits of Khokhlova—in a traditional Spanish lace mantilla (Picasso actually used an ordinary tablecloth to imitate it).
- Portrait of Olga in an armchair. 1917. Diaghilev hinted to Picasso that it was customary to marry Russian women, and so the amorous Spaniard decided to do so.
- Portrait of Olga Khokhlova. 1918. There is always a touch of the personal in any Picasso canvas. The image of Olga became ever-present in the artist’s studio, and over their 17 years of life together, it took on many different forms, verging at times on the religious.
Sep 23, 2023 · They are such a contrast and yet both paintings are depictions of the same woman, Pablo Picasso's first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Ukrainian ballerina who danced with the Ballets Russes. Getty...
Olga Khokhlova was a Russian ballet dancer and the first wife of renowned Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso. The two first met while working on a ballet production in France. Picasso pursued her for a while, but Olga was not ready to get into a relationship back then.
Olga Khokhlova, a dancer in Sergei Diaghilev’s company Ballets Russes, became Picasso’s principal model soon after they met in 1917. To prepare this portrait of his future wife, he created several drawings; he also worked from a photograph showing Olga in the same dress and pose, one reminiscent of Ingres’s Neoclassical paintings.
Sep 22, 2023 · Ten years younger than Picasso, Olga was a Ukrainian ballet dancer who first met him in 1917 while he worked on designs for the radical ballet Parade, fusing figurative art and extraordinary...
Sep 3, 2017 · About the exhibition. Olga Khokhlova was born to a colonel in 1891, in Nijin, a Ukrainian town located within the Russian Empire. In 1912, she entered the prestigious and innovative Russian Ballet directed by Serge Diaghilev. It was in Rome, spring 1917, where she met Pablo Picasso while he was producing, at the invitation of Jean Cocteau, the ...
