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- The erotic muse in this case was Marie-Thérèse Walter, a French teenager whom Picasso met and sweet-talked on a Paris street in 1927, when he was 45 and married.
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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.
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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May 18, 2022 · Pablo Picasso’s painting of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, in which she appears as a tentacled sea creature, surpassed its estimate when it came up for auction for the first time ever on...
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 ...
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. While the female form was not a new subject for Picasso, the flowing, curvilinear style and bright, saturated tones used to depicted Marie-Thérèse are departures from ...
Sep 22, 2023 · Picasso finally split with Olga in 1935 while his young lover, Marie-Thérèse, was pregnant. Olga's marriage to Picasso features in episode one on BBC iPlayer.
The magic of Picasso: the artist’s radiant 1934 portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter. Painted amidst a tumultuous period in the artist’s life, this colourful portrait of the artist’s famous muse reflects the inspiration behind the body of work hailed as his greatest since Cubism. Auction Highlights.