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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 .
- Fernande Olivier. Born Amélie Lang, Fernande Olivier suffered from a difficult childhood and married an abusive husband to escape her domineering aunt. At 19 she left her husband, changed her name, and fled to Paris, where she met Picasso and became his model and lover around 1904, influencing his Rose Period and early Cubist works.
- Olga Khokhlova. Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova, c. 1918 "> A blue-blooded Russian ballet dancer, Olga Khokhlova met 36-year-old Picasso when he served as a costume and set designer for her dance company.
- Marie-Thérèse Walter. Marie-Thérèse Walter pictured in a passport photo. "> Picasso was 45 years old when he laid eyes on 17-year-old Walter walking out of a department store in Paris.
- Dora Maar. A surrealist photographer and anti-fascist political activist, Maar caught Picasso's attention while he was involved with Walter, and he began artistically collaborating with her during the World War II era.
Apr 13, 2011 · A major new exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery tracks the affair between Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter, who became his mistress at 17, bore him a child, and committed suicide after his death ...
Oct 15, 1986 · But the couple, married in 1918, had been separated for more than 20 years at the time of her death. They had one son. By liaisons with Marie-Therese Walter and Francoise Gilot, the artist had ...
Mar 10, 2018 · All of a sudden, there she was in the flesh: a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed muse – as if he had willed her into being like Pygmalion. 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 ...
- Diana Widmaier Picasso
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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 ...
Jul 15, 2019 · Picasso died, at the age of ninety-one, in 1973. In 1977, Marie-Thérèse Walter hanged herself; eight years later, Jacqueline Roque, Gilot’s successor and Picasso’s second wife, shot herself ...
