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Portrait of Olga Khokhlova. 1918. Private collection. 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...
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 ...
Sep 23, 2023 · Getty Images. Comparing the painting with this photograph shows how realistic the portrait is of Olga Khokhlova. Picasso and Ms Khokhlova met in 1917, when he was asked to create the designs...
Dec 1, 2007 · Over Christmas of 1931, Picasso painted one of his most harrowing images of Olga; it is based on Jacques-Louis David’s great painting of the murder of the ideologue Jean-Paul Marat at the hands ...
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.
Jan 20, 2022 · In darker moments, he was given to parading in front of her a string of would-be rivals, most famously Dora Maar, a painter and photographer, and Olga Khokhlova, his first wife, a Russian dancer ...
Sep 3, 2017 · The spouses finally separate for good in 1935, a year the artist temporarily stops creating paintings, but stay married until Olga’s death in 1955. Scheduled for spring 2017 at the National Picasso Museum in Paris, the exposition revisits these shared years. It attempts to understand the execution of Picasso’s major artworks by recreating ...
