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Dec 1, 2007 · At 36, eager to settle down and have a son, Picasso married the beautiful Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, who embraced the role of Mme. Picasso, social hostess and zealous mother. But he came to ...
- Olga Khokhlova. 1917
- Olga Khokhlova in A Mantilla. 1917
- Portrait of Olga in An Armchair. 1917
- Portrait of Olga Khokhlova. 1918
- Olga Reading in An Armchair. 1920
- Olga Lost in Thought. 1923
- Maternity. 1921
- Dance. 1925
- Nude in A Red Chair. 1929
- Head of A Woman. Olga Picasso. 1935
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.
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).
Diaghilev hinted to Picasso that it was customary to marry Russian women, and so the amorous Spaniard decided to do so. It was for Olga’s sake that the artist departed from Cubism, and this period of his work is often described as “neoclassical”—all because his wife wanted to look like her real self in his pictures.
There is always a touch of the personalin 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.
More often than not, it seems, Picasso painted Olga in a sitting position. For the sake of her husband, she gave up her ballet career and decided not to go on Diaghilev’s tour of Latin America. She later suffered a leg injury and had to spend many long hours seated at their honeymoon villa in Biarritz, and thereafter in their Paris apartment.
While Olga was enjoying family life, Russia was being torn apart by the Revolution and Civil War. She was worried about the fate of her relatives, with whom she had lost touch for three years. Only later did disturbing letters start arriving from her homeland: her father had disappeared, one brother had died, another had fled the country, and her m...
In February 1921, Olga gave birth to the couple’s only son, Paulo. Picasso was overjoyed and portrayed his wife and child in the image of the Madonna. The portraits of mother and child are full of tenderness. The artist went on to paint many portraits of little Paulo, even depicting him in a Harlequin costume, as he did himself during his Rose Peri...
In the mid-1920s, their relationship began to deteriorate. Olga was increasingly jealous of Picasso (not without reason), hurled accusations at him, and was forever making a scene. On a trip to Monte Carlo to see Diaghilev, she was particularly hurt by her husband’s penchant for painting young ballerinas from the Ballets Russes. All the more so sin...
The crisis in their relationship became ever deeper, and Picasso increasingly deviated from realist images of Olga. Racked with jealousy, he began to meet secretly with other muses—and paint them in more cheerful forms and tones.
In 1935, the couple broke up. Soon afterwards, the artist’s young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter gave birth to a daughter. Yet for a long time to come, Olga remained a subject in Picasso’s work, albeit in a different light. Previously beautiful, henceforth she appears as a terrible monster. Read more: 4 Russian muses that inspired greats of 20th-centur...
Signature. Pablo Ruiz Picasso[a][b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, [8][9 ...
Apr 5, 2017 · The last wife of the artist was born in Paris under the name of Jacqueline Roque, in February 1927. Her father abandoned them so she lived with her mother until she died, when Jacqueline was eighteen years old. [gallery columns="2" link="file" size="medium" ids="20821,20782"] (1) David Douglas Duncan.
1. Jacqueline Picasso or Jacqueline Roque (24 February 1926 – 15 October 1986) was the muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso. Their marriage lasted 12 years until his death, during which time he created over 400 portraits of her, more than any of Picasso's other lovers. [1]
The one, happily smiling in early photos, laughing and playing with the dogs in family videos filmed by Pablo. In one of them , Olga pulls the petals off a daisy — "he loves me; he loves me not". And in the picture taken by Picasso in his studio in the late 1920s , the artist’s slim and elegant wife is sitting in a chair against the background of a nude portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter.
In 2008, he changed his pseudonym to Pablo Nicomedes, but signed under his real name: Cosme Castro. In 2006, with friends, he created the Big Purple Van Club, the world's smallest mobile concert stage. Passionate about radio science fiction, he writes a monthly radio drama with Mathias Pradenas: Purple UFO. It was broadcast on Radio Campus Paris from 2008 to 2009. At the same time, Cosme acted ...
