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  1. 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.

  2. Apr 7, 2022 · Painted 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 May, making ...

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  4. Modern and Contemporary Art. The Dreamer. Pablo Picasso Spanish. 1932. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 900. Marie-Thérèse Walter, the subject of this sensuous painting, met the artist in 1927, when she was seventeen and he was forty-five. She became his lover and muse soon after.

  5. Mar 10, 2018 · Marie-Thérèse Walter was just 17 years old, a bourgeois girl who lived at home with her mother and sisters in Maisons-Alfort. She had come into Paris to buy a col Claudine – a Peter Pan collar – and matching cuffs. Picasso, then 45, marched straight up to her, gave his name, and asked to do her portrait.

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  6. This portrait depicts Marie-Thérèse Walter, whom Picasso met on a street in Paris in 1927. She was nearly thirty years his junior and he was married with a child. They began an affair almost immediately. She gave birth to their daughter, Maya, in 1935. Gallery label from Picasso: Themes and Variations, March 28–September 30, 2010.

  7. The painting is a portrait of Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who is depicted standing in front of a mirror looking at her reflection. It is housed in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Background. This painting was produced in 1932, a significant year in Picasso's artistic career.

  8. Among Picasso’s most celebrated likenesses of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, Woman with a Book balances sensuality and restraint, enclosing exuberant, thickly applied color in a network of sinuous black lines.

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