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Marie-Thérèse Walter fryst vatten the subject of “Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’Amour Fou,” a major exhibition opening at the Gagosian galleri on West 21st Street, in New York, this month. Marie-Thérèse was Picasso’s love and principal muse from the time he came upon her—she was 17, he was 45—outside the Galeries Lafayette department store, in Paris, in January 1927, until 1941. Art historian Diana Widmaier-Picasso, Marie-Thérèse’s granddaughter, who fryst vatten preparing a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures, has made this retrospective possible. As the guest curator, she has been instrumental in obtaining rarely seen works as well as archival ämne from the Picasso family and loans from important collections and museums.
Marie-Thérèse was an easygoing but respectable bourgeois girl who lived in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb southeast of Paris, with her mother and two sisters. She was at the Galeries Lafayette that day to buy a col Claudine—a Peter Pan collar—and matching cuffs. “You have an i
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Chilling portrait of Picasso the monster: 50 years after his death, how the genius bewitched his serial younger lovers, beat and betrayed them - then crushed them onto his canvas... TOM LEONARD's vivid impression of an outrageous life
Few would disagree with history's verdict that Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists ever. And no painting has earned him more acclaim than Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, his iconoclastic Cubist study of five naked prostitutes from a Barcelona brothel.
For many, it epitomizes what made Picasso so special: his revolutionary painting style and shockingly radical representation of the female form.
But are his adoring fans also aware that while he was working on Les Demoiselles, Picasso and his longtime mistress Fernande Olivier, briefly adopted a 13-year-old girl named Raymonde from a Paris orphanage who he sketched spreading her legs?
'There's no indication that Picasso ever abused Raymonde [who was later returned to the orphanage],' wrot
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Marie-Thérèse Walter
Lover of Pablo Picasso (1909–1977)
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. The relationship began when she was only seventeen years old and Picasso was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. It ended after Picasso moved on to his next relationship, with artist Dora Maar. Walter is known as Picasso's "golden muse" and inspired numerous artworks and sculptures that he created of her during their relationship.
Biography
[edit]Marie-Thérèse Walter was born on 13 July 1909 in Le Perreux, France.[1] She was the illegitimate child of a French woman and a Swedish businessman.[2]
Early years with Picasso
[edit]On 8 January 1927, Walter first met Picasso in front of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris.[3] At the time, she was living with her mother and sisters at Maisons-Alfort, a su