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  2. Khokhlova was isolated and reliant on Picasso, having become trapped in Spain without a passport. At this time, Picasso painted his first portrait of her as a Spanish girl (Olga Khokhlova in Mantilla). After waiting six months for a visa, Khokhlova returned with Picasso to Paris.

  3. Olga was called a mediocre dancer, and Picasso’s beloved, Françoise Gilot wrote in her book about the artist that Diaghilev kept Khoklova in the troupe only because of her attractive appearance and noble origin.

    • 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.
  4. Sep 23, 2023 · Picasso and Ms Khokhlova met in 1917, when he was asked to create the designs for a then-radical ballet. She was 26 and Picasso 10 years older.

  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

  7. Nov 20, 2018 · Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova met in Rome in 1917 when her ballet company was rehearsing “Parade,” one of Sergei Diaghilev’s “Ballets Russes.” In 1918 they wed in an Orthodox church in Paris.

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