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Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935 and the mother of their daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova .
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Femme endormie, 1934. Oil on canvas. 28½ x 21¼ in (72.4 x 54 cm). Sold for $42,960,000 in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 9 November 2023 at Christie's in New York. 1934 was a dark moment in time for Picasso. Amidst rising global conflict — his homeland of Spain on the brink of civil war, fascism spreading across ...
May 5, 2010 · The 1932 portrait depicts the artist's lover—Marie-Thérèse Walter, a woman 30 years his junior and eventual mother of his daughter—nude and reclining next to a plate of fruit.
New York. Perls Galleries. "Maîtres de la première génération du vingtième siècle: A Group of Paintings in the Collection of Peter and Elizabeth Rübel, New York," March 13–April 13, 1957 (later traveled to several cities in the United States), no. 34. New York. Perls Galleries. "Picasso: An American Tribute," April 25–May 12, 1962 ...
Apr 15, 2011 · The love affair of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter forms a captivating new exhibit at Gagosian Gallery, curated in part by the couple’s granddaughter. Raphael had La Fornarina and ...
Apr 7, 2022 · New York. P ainted in April 1932, 90 years ago to the month, Femme nue couchée is one of Pablo Picasso’s most monumental and uninhibitedly sensual portrayals of Marie-Thérèse Walter. Appearing at auction for the first time, the large-scale painting is poised to achieve in excess of $60 million at Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction on 17 ...
Picasso moved his lover Marie-Thérèse and their one-year-old daughter, Maya, to a country house outside Paris in autumn 1936. Although he frequently depicted Marie-Thérèse asleep, this work may also reflect the sweet exhaustion of the new mother, as well as the perplexity of the fifty-five-year-old father: when Picasso painted this canvas ...
