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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 ...
- 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.
Sep 23, 2023 · Comparing the painting with this photograph shows how realistic the portrait is of Olga Khokhlova. Picasso and Ms Khokhlova met in 1917, when he was asked to create the designs for a then-radical ...
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Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova was born on June 17, 1891, in Nezhin, Chernihiv Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empire. Her mother, Lydia Zinchenko, was Ukrainian, while her father was a Russian officer.
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.
Sep 22, 2023 · Ten years younger than Picasso, Olga was a Ukrainian ballet dancer who first met him in 1917 while he worked on designs for the radical ballet Parade, fusing figurative art and extraordinary ...
Olga Khokhlova, Pablo Picasso’s tragic first wife, is a mystery no more. A new exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris is the first ever to be devoted to the artist’s wife Olga Khokhlova ...
