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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.
A new exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris is the first ever to be devoted to the artist’s wife Olga Khokhlova. She was Picasso’s forgotten wife, written out of history as a “neurotic”,...
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.
Sep 3, 2017 · Olga Khokhlova was born to a colonel in 1891, in Nijin, a Ukrainian town located within the Russian Empire. In 1912, she entered the prestigious and innovative Russian Ballet directed by Serge Diaghilev.
Portrait of Olga in an Armchair. Olga Khokhlova, a dancer in Sergei Diaghilev’s company Ballets Russes, became Picasso’s principal model soon after they met in 1917.
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 was the mother of their son, Paul (Paulo).
Olga Khokhlova (Nezhin, Ukraine, 1891– Cannes, France, 1955) was the daughter of a colonel in the Russian Imperial Army. In 1911 she joined the prestigious and innovative Ballet Russes company, which was highly successful in Europe at the start of the 20 th -century under the direction of Serguei Diaghilev.
