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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).
- 11 February 1955 (aged 63), Cannes, France
- 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.
Olga Khokhlova was a Russian ballet dancer and the first wife of renowned Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso. The two first met while working on a ballet production in France. Picasso pursued her for a while, but Olga was not ready to get into a relationship back then.
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Learn about Olga Khokhlova, the Russian ballerina who married Picasso in 1918 and inspired many of his paintings and sculptures. See photos and portraits of Olga and their son Paulo, and read comments from other visitors.
May 8, 2017 · An exhibition at Paris’s Picasso Museum sheds new light on the woman mostly known through her husband’s gaze. Learn about Olga Khokhlova, the Ukrainian-born dancer and artist who married Picasso in 1918 and inspired his most famous works. See letters, photos, and artworks that reveal her life, love, and legacy.
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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. 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 ...
Sep 3, 2017 · Learn about Olga Khokhlova, the first wife of Pablo Picasso, who inspired his classical and maternity paintings. See the exhibition that revisits their shared years and his artistic production from 1917 to 1935.
