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Olga Khokhlova. 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 ...
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.
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- 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.
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...
1923. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 828. Picasso painted this work, one of his best-known neoclassical pictures, upon his return to Paris after a summer sojourn in Cap d'Antibes. There, he and his wife, Olga, socialized with the charismatic American expatriates Gerald and Sara Murphy.
Olga Khokhlova. Picasso really believed her to be his love forever. The evidence was a marriage settlement where all his paintings were to be divided equally between them. Having settled in Paris Olga furnished the house in a glamorous and luxurious manner, in the high of fashion. They had a car with a driver, an art studio that occupied the ...
Olga in an Armchair, 1917 by Picasso. Return to Picasso's Spanish roots is significant with this stunning figurative portrait of the Ballets Russes ballerina, Olga Koklova, soon to become his first wife.
