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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.
May 18, 2022 · Pablo Picasso’s most curious painting of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, in which she appears as a tentacled sea creature, has sold for $67.5 million, over the estimate of $60 million. “Femme...
Mar 8, 2018 · Photograph by Marie-Thérèse Walter © Maya Picasso collection. My grandfather only began to come to life for me the day he died, 8 April 1973. It was a Sunday afternoon, and after lunch we...
Oct 5, 2023 · Pablo Picasso, a towering figure of 20th-century art, has painted a portrait – one of many – of his “golden muse” and secret lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is one of only three major works...
Aug 16, 2020 · He was 28 years her senior, but Marie-Thérèse Walter soon became his muse for voluptuous portraits and gave birth to his daughter before he moved on to the next of his many relationships,...
The Collection. 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.
Oct 27, 2023 · The hidden cipher. A chance encounter with Marie-Thérèse on the streets of Paris in 1927 would lead to an impassioned period of creativity for the artist as the two began a years-long, clandestine affair. ‘This is the person who's already been through the Blue and Rose periods.
