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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).
The Collection. Modern and Contemporary Art. Returned to lender. Portrait of Olga in an Armchair. Pablo Picasso Spanish. 1918. Not on view. Olga Khokhlova, a dancer in Sergei Diaghilev’s company Ballets Russes, became Picasso’s principal model soon after they met in 1917.
- 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.
Nov 20, 2018 · Jointly with the National Picasso Museum in Paris and the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation for Art (FABA) in Madrid the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents the exhibition “Picasso & Khokhlova.”. Olga Khokhlova, Picasso’s first wife, is the main heroic figure of this exhibition.
Sep 23, 2023 · 22 September 2023. By Lucy Wallis,BBC News. Alamy. Paintings of Picasso's wife Olga Khokhlova. The first from 1918, at the start of their relationship and the second from 1929 as the...
Artsmarts • March 25, 2019. Love Story in Paintings: Pablo Picasso and Olga Khoklova. Like 21. For some reason, it’s not customary to speak well of Picasso 's first wife. Many of the artist’s friends openly disliked Olga Khoklova. And the artist himself caused a lot of brickbat.
Sep 3, 2017 · 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 decorations and ...
