"Weeping Woman" Picasso - one of the images of the twentieth century
The Metropolitan Museum has opened the exhibition "Picasso's weeping woman" (Picasso`s weeping woman), which contains more than 70 female portraits created over a period of twenty years - from the early 20s to the early 40s. The exhibition caused a great resonance, like any extensive exhibition of Picasso, who is considered to be the largest artist of the twentieth century - the only one comparable to the giants of the Baroque. The work of Picasso, closely intertwined with the dramatic events of our century, makes us think not only about the three women whose portraits are presented at the exhibition - Olga Khokhlova, Dore Maar and Marie-Therese Walter - but also about the main collisions of the century. Art critic ARKADY Y-IPPOLITOV writes about the exhibition.
In 1937, Picasso painted the painting "Weeping Woman". It depicts a woman's face distorted by flour. The viewer can only guess that this is a face, since the portrait arises from the chaos of rigid geometric lines. Real proportions are violated and subject to one idea: to convey suffering that turns a face into something terrible, out of shape, monstrous. This task was quite successful for the artist, and Picasso's fantastic mirage evokes some later textbook photographs. For example, documentary shots of weeping Czechs herded into the streets to greet the entry of German troops into Prague in 1939. Convulsions of crying disfigure faces, but hands are raised in a fascist salute. So less than two years later, reality surpassed the "shocking" Picasso.
"Weeping Woman" dates back to October 1937. A little earlier, in May, he creates his famous "Guernica", written under the impression of the events of the Spanish Civil War. On April 26, 1937, German aviation, at the direction of General Franco, bombarded the city of Guernica, almost wiping it off the face of the earth. Photos of the destroyed Guernica immediately appeared in French newspapers. The destruction of the city turned out to be neither the largest nor the bloodiest war crime of the 20th century, but the international community, which was not yet accustomed to such actions, was terribly suppressed. Picasso wrote an open letter against the Franco regime, and created a picture best described in his own poetic lines: "... the crying of children, the crying of women, the crying of birds, the crying of flowers, the crying of stones and beams ..."
"Weeping Woman" was a kind of postscript "Guernica". Many researchers associate this painting with one of the figures on the large canvas, and although there is no direct resemblance between them, it is obvious that both works are closely related. Usually, "The Weeping Woman" is considered in the context of the great artist's social gestures, which are generally not very characteristic of him. And the fact that the exhibition of female portraits, which would seem frankly lyrical, was called "Picasso's Weeping Woman" at first glance causes some bewilderment.
In 1937, when Picasso created many paintings, engravings and drawings dedicated to Spanish events, his life was outwardly serene and happy. Together with his girlfriend Dora Maar, the artist rents an atelier in the center of Paris, travels to the south of France and Switzerland. She introduced Picasso to Georges Bataille, a philosopher and writer, author of political-economic, ethnological and cultural works, as well as short stories and novels. Bataille became a fairly close friend of Picasso, and meetings of the society of aesthetes, founded by this admirer of the Marquis de Sade, were often held in the artist's studio. The works of Picasso of this particular time are characterized by intense eroticism, which is also noticeable in the images of the young Marie-Therese Walter. The blond beauty became Picasso's favorite muse and posed for him almost more often than Dora Maar. But the resulting compositions can be called portraits rather conditionally - their main theme was the magical perfection of rounded shapes and lines.
In parallel with this kind of work, glorifying the joie de vivre, Picasso paints female figures, turned by his imagination into terrible surreal monsters, as in the painting "Girls with a toy ship" also in 1937. It all culminates in the 1940 Woman Combing Her Hair. The naked female figure here looks like a formidable chimera. Needless to say, this thing has become an allegory of the horror in which France plunged. But in a paradoxical way, the features of Dora Maar and Marie-Thérèse Walter are also guessed in the "Weeping Woman", and in "The Woman Combing Her Hair", and in the distorted female faces of "Guernica". And the name given to the exhibition of female portraits by Picasso is by no means accidental.
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At the stage "synthetic cubism" (1912-1917) Picasso's works take on a decorative and contrasting character. The paintings depict mostly still lifes with various objects: musical instruments, notes, bottles of wine, pipes, cutlery, posters and so on. Picasso and Braque also used real objects in their works: wallpaper, sand, ropes, etc.
Their first works were collages "Still life with a wicker chair" (1912)
AND "Guitar (metal)" (1914).
Inspired by the work of Picasso, was created Millennium Bridge (Millennium Bridge) in London.
But the First World War interrupted the cubic experiments of Picasso and Georges Braque, marking a new stage in the life of the artist - "period of classicism" (1917-1925). It was at this time that he falls in love with a Russian dancer Olga Khokhlova from the ballet troupe of Sergei Diaghilev, for whose performances Picasso made scenery and costumes. Soon they get married and their son Paulo is born.
Picasso and Olga Khokhlova in front of a poster for the ballet Parade, 1917
Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova in Biarritz, 1918
Olga Khokhlova in an armchair, 1917
Picasso from the avant-garde bohemian environment of Paris falls into the atmosphere of classical ballet and ancient Rome. Completely new people, a new creative experience in the field of theater scenography. The whole environment calls for realism, figurativeness of the drawing, and Picasso responds to these changes in his life. Since that time, the ancient classics, but in their own way, determine the style of his work. In addition, the artist leads a new way of life for himself - he rotates in a respectable secular environment, to which his Russian wife gravitates. They maintain close ties in the ballet world, start a rich house, attend social events, dance at costume balls. Olga and her son become the main characters living inside his paintings.
Portrait of Olga in an armchair, 1917
Source, 1921
Olga in thought, 1923
Motherhood, 1921
Olga, 1923
The artist's son dressed as a Harlequin (Portrait of Paulo), 1924
And then there was this picture "Dance, Three Dancers, Three Dancers" (1925).
Broken lines, distorted figures, squeezed in a vice in a cramped space, wild, bright color, deformation of proportions, grotesque - this is how we can characterize what we see in this picture. But Olga was no longer a beloved wife, she annoyed, strained with her secular propriety and love of dinner parties, just look at the female figure in the center - she seemed to be crucified on a cross with special cruelty, and her face, there are two of them, if you look straight, and the second with an evil grin can be seen if you lower your head to your right shoulder.
His next passion was Maria Theresa Walter, who at the time of their casual acquaintance on the street was only 17 years old, and Picasso was 45.
Marie-Therese Walther, 1927
Marie-Therese Walther with her mother's dog, 1930
Their love matched surreal experiments Pablo (1925-1937). She inspired him to search for new plastic arts, in the paintings of this period a very special, smooth and elastic line - the captivating young body of Marie-Therese dictated a special aesthetics. She is recognizable in all the pictures - blondes with bright eyes, a Roman profile and smooth outlines of the body.
Portrait of Maria Theresa, 1937
Bright coloring, tenderness of colors, softness, sexuality - Picasso was able to capture the essence of this girl, conveying her soft disposition and lightness through the paintings.
And it is also repeated on all canvases, wherever it is depicted, only the essence.
Woman in an orange beret and fur collar (Maria Teresa), 1937
Woman at the Window (Maria Teresa), 1936
Dream, 1932
And even this picture.
Weeping woman, 1937
Picasso captures his new love Doru Maar, which was with him throughout 1935-1945.
An artist and professional photographer, she moved in the circle of surrealists, where she met him. Her nervousness and vulnerability is captured in a series of portraits called "Weeping Woman".
Weeping woman, 1937
Weeping woman with a headscarf, 1937
The most significant canvas of the 20th century was "Guernica (1937), written literally in a month, after the terrible news about the bombing of the Spanish city of Guernica, which was bombed for several hours in a row, dropping several thousand shells, completely wiping it off the face of the earth.
Picasso was one of the first to respond with pain to these terrible events, painting a picture in the style of cubism in black and white.
We see suffering people, animals, and buildings transformed by violence and chaos. Scenes of death, violence, atrocities, suffering and helplessness are shown almost realistically, without specifying their immediate causes, and the choice of black and white palette reflects the lifeless nature of war. Look at the woman on the left with her eyes popping out of horror, clutching a dead child in her arms, and from her mouth with her tongue hanging out an inhuman cry of pain and deep suffering, a bomb explodes somewhere above, and on the right - a figure with arms raised in horror, caught in a trap of fire from above and below, in the center - a horse falling in agony, pierced by a spear, below it is visible a dead, dismembered soldier, whose severed hand is still clutching a fragment of a sword from which a flower grows, at the bottom right, an awe-struck woman leaned towards center, her indifferent gaze is directed at a sparkling light bulb, to the upper right of the horse we see an antique mask, which, as if a witness to the scenes taking place in front of it, seems to float into the room through the window with a lit lamp in its hands. All this creates a depressing, tense, emotionally strong impact and there is something from it! This grandiose canvas was shown at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. However, not all critics accepted Guernica: some denied artistry to the picture, calling the canvas a “propaganda document”, others tried to limit the content of the picture only to the framework of a specific event and saw in it only an image of the tragedy of the Basque people. And the Madrid magazine "Sabado graphico" even wrote: “Guernica - a canvas of enormous size - is terrible. Perhaps this is the worst thing that Pablo Picasso created in his life.".
The image of the dove as a symbol of peace was created by Picasso in 1949. However, it is interesting that he did not choose this bird, but his friend Louis Aragon, who was looking for a symbol for the poster of the Congress of the Peace Movement. His choice fell on one of Picasso's engravings depicting a dove. It was not an abstract dove, but a "portrait" of a very specific bird, which Picasso presented to Matisse.
This dove became the first famous "Dove of Peace". Picasso did not consider this drawing the pinnacle of his work, but did not object to the choice of Aragon. Just sarcastically remarked to him:
“Poor fellow! He doesn't know pigeons at all! The tenderness of a dove, what nonsense! They are very cruel indeed. I had pigeons that pecked to death one unfortunate dove that they did not like ... They pecked out her eyes and tore her to pieces, this is a terrible sight! A good symbol of peace!”
(quote from Henri Gidel's Picasso)
He later reworked this image into a graphic version.
The pigeon theme was close to him like no other. Pigeons have always been present in his life because his father was a lover of these birds and kept a dovecote.
Picasso and dove, Paris, 1945
Picasso and doves, Cannes, 1955
This theme is often found in his work.
Pigeons, 1957
Pigeons, 1957
Child with a dove, 1901
At 60, Picasso begins to take an interest in ceramics, he creates a huge collection of skillfully sculpted dishes, earthenware jugs that look like Greek vases.
Pottery is overflowing with fun and extraordinarily talented. It seems that the artist was able to convey his manner of creating on canvas in working with clay.
Each product contains wide mischievous strokes, funny details, cheerful strokes of the cutter. One gets the impression that the clay is not molded by hand, but painted with a brush. At the same time, the forms themselves incredibly accurately convey the playful mood of the creator and his ambiguous talent. Some works are close to antique genres, while others are made in the Spanish palette of the 16th-17th centuries.
All ceramic works of Picasso can be divided into two types - flat ceramics and bulk.
The flat includes numerous plates, bowls, flat plates. Basically, you can find his favorite subjects: bullfighting, mythology, an artist and a model, female images, animals, abstract themes. Favorite owls with a human face (owlet and goat were the master's pets at that time) dominate the number of characters.
Some of the work is more like a sketch.
And volumetric ceramics is represented by vases and bowls, which captivate with their irregularity and come close to sculpture.
Picasso was interested in the fun of "crossing" such an ordinary object as a vase with a variety of objects. Some kind of werewolves appear: bird vase, face vase, woman vase, bull vase.
Tree-Owl-Woman, 1951
Woman, 1955
Throughout his life, Picasso was inspired by women, they live in his paintings and inspire other artists.
Françoise Gilot
Portrait of a woman in a green hat, 1947
Woman with hairnet, 1949
Jacqueline Rock
His second legitimate and beloved wife, who simply adored him, idolized him, putting him on a pedestal, resignedly demolishing the bad character of Picasso. Jacqueline Rock was a very beautiful woman, petite, slender and black-haired, with an amazing profile, in which Picasso always saw a resemblance to the characters of the oriental harems, depicted more than once by Delacroix and Matisse, and then he himself captured Jacqueline in the image of an oriental beauty. For almost 20 years, she was almost his only model, he painted about 400 portraits of her.
Seated woman in Turkish costume (Jacqueline), 1955
Woman in Turkish costume in an armchair, 1955
Woman in the studio, 1956
Portrait of a woman in a green dress, 1956
Head of a woman, 1960
Head of a woman, 1963
Jacqueline seated in a chair, 1964
During the period of life and work in Valoris, Picasso met a young girl, his admirer, whom he briefly became interested in. She inspired him to a stormy artistic activity - within three months he painted about 40 portraits of her. They are easy to identify by their characteristic detail - a playful "horse tail".
Portrait of Silvette David, 1954
By the way, Brigitte Bardot adopted her style from Sylvette.
A favorite of the public, a brilliant and world-famous artist, he was incredibly artistic, which was reflected in his free style.
The famous vest is present in every second picture of Picasso, and embodies style and character. Vest- as a sign of fortitude, adventurism and eternal love for the sea. The artist added a little artistry to her.
Imitated him Andy Warhole
And Jean Paul Gaultier.
Picasso made a huge contribution to modern art, standing at its origins, inspiring other artists, for example Jackson Pollock(American artist, ideologue and leader of abstract expressionism, who had a significant impact on the art of the second half of the 20th century).
His influence can be seen in everything, in addition - it is an undeniable brand which immediately grabs attention.
Fashion
Polygraphy
Business ideas
Picasso left behind 43 thousand works, having had a huge impact on art and becoming one of the most recognizable masters of the 20th century.
"Whenever I want to say something, I speak in the manner in which,
I feel like it should be said." Pablo Picasso.
When he was born, the midwife thought he was stillborn.
Picasso was rescued by his uncle. “Doctors at that time smoked big cigars, and my uncle
was no exception when he saw me lying motionless,
he blew smoke in my face, to which I, with a grimace, let out a roar of rage."
Above: Pablo Picasso in Spain
Photo: LP / Roger-Viollet / Rex Features
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Andalusian
provinces of Spain.
Picasso was baptized with the full name of Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula.
Juan Nepomuseno Maria de los Remedios Crispin Crispignano de la Santisima
Trinidad Ruiz and Picasso - which, according to Spanish custom, was a series of names
revered saints and relatives of the family.
Picasso - mother's surname, which Pablo took, since his father's surname
seemed too ordinary to him, besides, Picasso's father, José Ruiz,
he himself was an artist.
Above: Painter Pablo Picasso in Mougins, France in 1971,
two years before his death.
Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Picasso's first word was "Piz" - which is short for "La piz",
which means pencil, in spanish.
Picasso's first painting was called "Picador"
man riding a horse in a bullfight.
The first exhibition of Picasso took place when he was 13,
in the back room of the umbrella shop.
At the age of 13, Pablo Picasso entered the
Barcelona Academy of Arts.
But in 1897, at the age of 16, he came to Madrid to study at the School of Arts.
"First Communion". 1896 The painting was created by 15-year-old Picasso
"Self-portrait". 1896
Technique: Oil on canvas. Collection: Barcelona, Picasso Museum
"Knowledge and Mercy". 1897 The painting was painted by 16 year old Pablo Picasso.
As an adult and having once visited an exhibition of children's drawings, Picasso said:
"At their age, I drew like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to
to learn how to draw like them."
Pablo Picasso painted his masterpiece in 1901,
when the artist was only 20 years old.
Picasso was once interrogated by the police for having stolen the Mona Lisa.
After the painting disappeared from the Louvre in Paris in 1911, the poet and "friend"
Guillaume Apollinaire pointed his finger at Picasso.
Child and dove, 1901. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
currently on display as part of the Courtauld Gallery's Becoming Picasso exhibition.
Picture: Private collection.
Picasso burned some of his paintings when he was an aspiring artist in Paris,
to keep warm.
Above: The Absinthe Drinker, 1901. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Photo: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Pablo Picasso.Ironer.1904
Allegedly in this work is a disguised self-portrait of Picasso!
Picasso's sister Conchita died of diphtheria in 1895.
Picasso met French painter Henri Matisse in 1905
at the home of writer Gertrude Stein.
Above: Dwarf-Dancer, 1901 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
currently exhibited as part of the Courtauld Gallery's Become Picasso exhibition.
Photo: Picasso Museum, Barcelona (gasull Fotografia)
Pablo Picasso. Woman with a crow. 1904
Picasso had many mistresses.
Women of Picasso - Fernanda Olivier, Marcel Humbert, Olga Khokhlova,
Maria Theresa Walter, Françoise Gilot, Dora Maar, Jacqueline Roque...
The first wife of Pablo Picasso was the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova.
In the spring of 1917, the poet Jean Cocteau, who collaborated with Sergei Diaghilev,
invited Picasso to sketch costumes and scenery for the future ballet.
The artist went to work in Rome, where he fell in love with one of the dancers of the Diaghilev troupe -
Olga Khokhlova. Diaghilev, noticing Picasso's interest in the ballerina, considered it his duty
to warn the hot Spanish rake that Russian girls are not easy -
they should be married...
They got married in 1918. The wedding took place in Paris Orthodox Cathedral
Alexander Nevsky, among the guests and witnesses were Diaghilev, Apollinaire, Cocteau,
Gertrude Stein, Matisse.
Picasso was convinced that he would marry for life, and therefore in his marriage contract
included an article stating that their property is common.
In the event of a divorce, this meant dividing it equally, including all the paintings.
And in 1921 their son Paul was born.
However, the life of a married couple did not work out ...
but it was the only official wife of Pablo,
they were not divorced.
Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova.
Pablo Picasso. Olga.
Picasso painted her a lot in a purely realistic manner, which she herself insisted on.
a ballerina who did not like incomprehensible experiments in painting.
“I want,” she said, “to know my face.”
Pablo Picasso.Portrait of Olga Khokhlova.
Françoise Gilot.
This amazing woman managed to fill Picasso with strength without wasting her own.
She gave him two children and managed to prove that the family idyll is not a utopia,
but a reality that exists for free and loving people.
The children of Francoise and Pablo received the surname Picasso and after the death of the artist became
part of his fortune.
Françoise put an end to her relationship with the artist herself, having learned about his infidelity.
Unlike many of the master's lovers, Françoise Gilot did not go mad and did not commit suicide.
Feeling that the love story came to an end, she herself left Picasso,
not giving him the opportunity to replenish the list of abandoned and devastated women.
By publishing the book “My Life with Picasso”, Françoise Gilot went against the will of the artist in many ways,
but gained worldwide fame.
Françoise Gilot and Picasso.
With Francoise and children.
Picasso had four children with three women.
Above: Pablo Picasso with the two children of his mistress Françoise Gilot,
Claude Picasso (left) and Paloma Picasso.
Photo: REX
Children of Picasso.Claude and Paloma.Paris.
Marie-Therese Walter gave birth to his daughter Maya.
He married his second wife, Jacqueline Rock, when he was 79 (she was 27).
Jacqueline remains the last and faithful woman of Picasso and looks after him,
already sick, blind and hard of hearing, until his death.
Picasso. Jacqueline with crossed arms, 1954
One of Picasso's many muses was the dachshund Lump.
(That's right, in the German manner. Lump in German - "scumbags").
The dog belonged to photographer David Douglas Duncan.
She died a week before Picasso.
There are several periods in the work of Pablo Picasso: blue, pink, African ...
The "blue" (1901-1904) period includes works created between 1901 and 1904.
Gray-blue and blue-green deep cold colors, colors of sadness and despondency, constantly
are present in them. Picasso called blue "the color of all colors".
Frequent subjects of these paintings are emaciated mothers with children, vagabonds, beggars, and the blind.
"A beggar old man with a boy" (1903) Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow.
"Mother and Child" (1904, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Blind Man's Breakfast. 1903 Collection: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Pink period" (1904 - 1906) is characterized by more cheerful tones - ocher
and pink as well as enduring image themes - harlequins, itinerant actors,
acrobats
Fascinated by the comedians who became the models for his paintings, he frequented the Medrano Circus;
at this time, the harlequin is Picasso's favorite character.
Pablo Picasso, two acrobats with a dog, 1905
Pablo Picasso, Boy with a pipe, 1905
"African" period (1907 - 1909)
In 1907, the famous "Girls of Avignon" appeared. The artist worked on them for more than a year -
long and carefully, as he had not worked on his other paintings before.
The first reaction of the public is shock. Matisse was furious. Even most of my friends didn't accept this job.
"It feels like you wanted to feed us tow or give us gasoline to drink,"
said the painter Georges Braque, Picasso's new friend. Scandalous picture, whose name he gave
poet A. Salmon, was the first step in painting on the way to cubism, and many art critics consider
its starting point for modern art.
Queen Isabella. 1908 cubism Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow.
Picasso was also a writer. He wrote about 300 poems and two plays.
Above: Harlequin and Companion, 1901. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
currently exhibited as part of the Courtauld Gallery in the Become Picasso exhibition.
Photo: State Museum of A. S. Pushkin, Moscow
Acrobats. Mother and son. 1905
Pablo Picasso. Lovers. 1923
Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" painting depicting him
mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, was sold at auction for $106.5 million.
This broke the record for paintings sold at auction,
which was set by Munch's painting "The Scream".
More Picasso paintings have been stolen than any other artist.
550 of his works are listed as missing.
Above: Weeping Woman 1937 by Pablo Picasso
Photo: Guy Bell / Alamy
Together with Georges Braque, Picasso founded cubism.
He also worked in styles:
Neoclassicism (1918 - 1925)
Surrealism (1925 - 1936), etc.
Pablo Picasso. Two girls reading.
Picasso donated his sculptures to the society in Chicago, USA in 1967.
He gave unsigned paintings to his friends.
He said: otherwise you will sell them when I die.
Olga Khokhlova in recent years lived in Cannes all alone.
She was ill for a long time and painfully, and on February 11, 1955, she died of cancer.
at the city hospital. Only her son and a few friends attended the funeral.
Picasso at that time in Paris was finishing the painting "Women of Algeria" and did not come.
Picasso's two mistresses, Marie-Thérèse Walter and Jacqueline Roque (who became his wife)
committed suicide. Maria Theresa hanged herself four years after his death.
Rock shot herself in 1986, 13 years after Picasso's death.
Pablo Picasso's mother said: "With my son, who was created only for himself
and for no one else, no woman can be happy"
Above: Seated Harlequin, 1901. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
currently exhibited as part of the Courtauld Gallery in the Become Picasso exhibition.
Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum / Art Resource / Scala, Florence
According to the proverb, Spain is a country where men despise sex,
but live for it. "In the morning - a church, in the afternoon - bullfighting, in the evening - a brothel" -
This credo of the Spanish machos was sacredly adhered to by Picasso.
The artist himself said that art and sexuality are one and the same.
Pablo Picasso and Jean Cacto at a bullfight in Vallauris, 1955
Above: Pablo Picasso's Guernica, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Painting by Picasso "Guernica" (1937). Guernica is a small Basque town in northern Spain, almost wiped off the face of the earth by German aircraft on May 1, 1937.
One day the Gestapo ransacked Picasso's house. A Nazi officer, seeing a photograph of Guernica on the table, asked: "Did you do that?" "No," the artist replied, "you did it."
During the Second World War, Picasso lives in France, where he becomes close to the communists.
members of the Resistance (in 1944, Picasso even joins the French Communist Party).
In 1949, Picasso paints his famous "Dove of Peace" on a poster.
World Peace Congress in Paris.
In the photo: Picasso paints a dove on the wall of his house in Mougins. August 1955.
Picasso's last words were "Drink for me, drink for my health,
you know I can't drink anymore."
He died while he and his wife, Jacqueline Rock, were entertaining friends over dinner.
Picasso was buried at the base of the castle he bought in 1958.
in Vauvenargues, in the south of France.
He was 91 years old. Shortly before his death, distinguished by a prophetic gift
artist said:
“My death will be a shipwreck.
When a large ship dies, everything that is around it is drawn into the funnel.
And so it happened. His grandson Pablito asked to be allowed to attend the funeral,
but the artist's last wife, Jacqueline Rock, refused.
On the day of the funeral, Pablito drank a bottle of decoloran, a bleaching chemical
liquid. Save Pablito failed.
He was buried in the same grave in the cemetery in Cannes, where Olga's ashes rest.
On June 6, 1975, 54-year-old Paul Picasso died of cirrhosis of the liver.
His two children are Marina and Bernard, Pablo Picasso's last wife Jacqueline
and three more illegitimate children - Maya (daughter of Marie-Therese Walter),
Claude and Paloma (children of Francoise Gilot) - were recognized as the heirs of the artist.
Long battles for the inheritance began
Marina Picasso, who inherited her grandfather's famous mansion "Residence of the King" in Cannes,
lives there with her adult daughter and son and three adopted Vietnamese children.
She makes no distinction between them, and has already made a will, according to which
her entire vast fortune after her death will be divided into five equal parts.
Marina created a foundation bearing her name, which she built in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City
village of 24 houses for 360 Vietnamese orphans.
“Love for children,” emphasizes Marina, “I inherited from my grandmother.
Olga was the only person from the entire Picasso clan who treated us, grandchildren,
with tenderness and care. And my book "Children living at the end of the world" I in many ways
wrote in order to restore her good name.
Comments
2016Alexander, Belgorod
March 31
Amazing, wonderful picture. External beauty and deep emptiness and pain inside. How modern it is. How many such women are around now!
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Roman, St. Petersburg
December 17
The picture is very very beautiful! I have an absolutely identical copy (in oil) hanging at home as the original exactly the same and in size too. This picture was made by a very good artist. I am happy with this picture at home, I just can’t get enough of it.
They offered 120t.r., but I don’t really want to sell it, it’s too good a copy))
Paul,
May 29
Amazing picture, unusual range of colors. It is worth watching live, a storm of feelings.
Milan, Sochi
March 27
I like this picture!! The artist conveys his feelings and emotionality. Since artists always leave a particle of themselves, at least a small one, they do. Here the artist clearly conveyed his pain, how bad and sad he felt. Pablo Picasso betrayed the term geometric shapes, apparently he wanted to convey then when we cry, what happens inside of us. I feel very sorry for this girl.
Kirill, Kovrov
March 03
From the picture, a woman is looking at us with bottomless eyes full of sadness and pain. In her hands is a handkerchief that she tightly clutches in her teeth, as if she is suffering unbearable pain. Only this pain is not bodily, but spiritual. The picture conveys a very strong feeling of sadness and longing, which very unusual the picture is painted in bright and saturated colors. Behind the woman is a yellow wall, symbolizing the happy world around her, which does not share her grief. There are tears on the woman’s cheeks, but there are none in her eyes. This shows that grief passes. Time heals.
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Olya-la, Krasnoyarsk
November 01
In this picture, I see not just the grief of a woman, I also see her inner experiences.
Alexei,
June 10th
Understanding requires diligence. Nato it and art that you will not see in nature! After the 1000th picture, the essence begins to hide deeper in the details.
Five-year-old, Khabarovsk
May 27
As a child, this picture in the journal "Science and Life" scared me a lot. Plus, a venomous comment was attached, they say, it was found out that some patients see the world exactly like Picasso. Hence the conclusion: was he sick ...
Over the years, however, I realized that everything is much deeper and better. And newspapers should not be trusted in matters of art.
Dima, Zaporozhye
January 15
Kind of strange. (some kind of idiocy (another person's comment))
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Marusya, Barnaul
December 28th
What surprises me the most is how the artist was able to convey the grief of a woman with the help of pure, bright and rich colors.
Tatiana, Volgodonsk
September 06
This grief cannot be more accurately conveyed ...
Valentine, St. Petersburg
September 04
Real grief! You can cry yourself!
Nastya, Moscow
August 02
By the way, this picture is the most expressive of Pablo Picasso. It can be seen that grief is such that there is nowhere worse.
Natalia,
20 April
Probably he himself was sad when he painted ...
2009
Natali, Moscow
November 07
and in my opinion Dora's temperament is very accurately conveyed
Eugene, Samara
28 of October
It's a pity for the woman, the artist mutilated her greatly. Here is the roar.
Kolya, Lutsk
February 03
the picture is effectively hostile. although it is absolutely abstract, but the woman's suffering is conveyed realistically. super.
Pablo Picasso 1920s
Pablo Picasso. "Seated woman" (portrait of Fernanda) 1909, 81 × 65 cm, oil, canvas
Everyone knows Pablo Picasso - a brilliant artist, but few people know him from the side that he turned to women. He can safely be called a destroyer - almost everyone he loved went crazy or committed suicide. He said that women prolong life, and if he was fond of someone, he created a whole series of works. Exactly 45 years ago, at the age of 91, Picasso passed away - we suggest recalling the artist's seven muses.
Fernanda Olivier
Model Fernande Olivier - the first great love - Picasso met in Paris in 1904. It was from the appearance of Fernanda that the gloomy painting of Picasso acquired colors. They were young, quickly bonded and went through the poverty and obscurity of the artist's first decade in Paris together. When his paintings began to buy, their relationship was already running out. Picasso broke with former lovers without regret: this happened with Fernanda when the artist met Marcel Humbert, who became his affection for the three-year period of cubism. Portrait of Fernanda "Woman with pears" - one of the first experiments in the period of early cubism.
Pablo Picasso, Woman with Pears (Fernanda), 1909
Fernanda Olivier, circa 1909
Olga Khokhlova
The ballerina Olga Khokhlova - the first wife and mother of the first child - Picasso met in Italy in 1917 while working on the Russian Seasons. Diaghilev warned Picasso that they do not joke with Russian women, they marry them. Olga Khokhlova did not just become Picasso's wife - he married her according to the Orthodox rite. After parting after 17 years of conflicting family life, they never divorced - Picasso did not want to share the property equally, which was required by the terms of the marriage contract.
Cooling to his wife came along with cooling to the bourgeois life, which Khokhlova loved so much. The strained relationship was reflected in the paintings - if at the beginning of their love story the portraits of Olga are realistic, then by the time the marriage broke up, Picasso paints her only in the style of surrealism. "Woman in a Hat" was created in 1935 - the year when Olga found out that Picasso had a child from her mistress Marie-Therese Walter. Although she left herself, she pursued Picasso for many years - her death in 1955 brought only relief to the artist. 
Pablo Picasso, "Woman in a Hat (Olga)", 1935
Olga Khokhlova, circa 1917
Maria Theresa Walter
Marie-Therese Walter appeared in the life of Picasso in 1927. She was only 17, he was already 45. Before meeting with the artist, she had not even heard his name. In 1935, Walter gave birth to his daughter Maya, whom he continued to visit even after parting with her mother. For many years, Maria Theresa wrote tender letters to her former lover, which he read to new girlfriends. She committed suicide four years after Picasso's death. Usually the artist depicted her as a blonde with a short haircut, but in the 1937 portrait, bright makeup and painted nails appear - a sign that Picasso was having an affair with Dora Maar. 
Pablo Picasso, "Portrait of Maria Theresa", 1937
Marie-Therese Walter, circa 1928
Dora Maar
Dora Maar is the same "weeping woman" Picasso. This plot reflects not only the artist's perception of the character of this woman, but also pre-war moods in Europe. At the time of their acquaintance in 1935, Dora was already an established artist and photographer herself - their relationship was more intellectual than romantic. The break with Picasso after a nine-year romance brought Dora to a psychiatric clinic, and in recent years she led a reclusive life. Before you is one of the most famous paintings from the series of "weeping women". 
Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman (Dora Maar), 1937
Dora Maar, circa 1955
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot is the only woman who managed to get out of the water dry after a ten-year affair with Picasso. The artist met Francoise, who was fit for his granddaughter, in a restaurant in 1943 - she was an excellent companion and over time, Picasso began to need her. Françoise gave birth to two children, son Claude and daughter Paloma, and left with them in 1953, becoming the only woman who managed to get out of the influence of Picasso without psychological problems - she took place as an artist, married twice, wrote a book about Picasso, which formed the basis of the film "Living Life with Picasso" starring Anthony Hopkins. The image of the “flower woman” appeared in the spring of 1946, when the artist finally persuaded Francoise to move in with him. 
Pablo Picasso, Flower Woman (Francoise Gilot), 1946
Françoise Gilot, 1973
Sylvette David
Sylvette David, with whom Picasso never had a close relationship, became the artist's muse in the 1950s - she posed for him several times in 1954, which resulted in a whole series of works - they can be easily guessed by the magnificent ponytail of blond hair. The romance with Sylvette did not happen - the girl was always accompanied by the groom, and she herself felt uncomfortable next to the celebrity, but the acquaintance with the great artist played into her hands - Picasso gave her one of the portraits, and with the money from his sale she was able to buy a house in Paris . 
Pablo Picasso, "Portrait of Sylvette David in a green chair", 1954
Sylvette David, 1954
Jacqueline Rock
Jacqueline Rock - Picasso's last love and second official wife - has become the main character in his paintings in the last 20 years. At the time of their acquaintance in 1953, she was 27, he was 73. Jacqueline endured his difficult character and called him a monsignor - he lived with her until his death. She experienced the departure of Picasso hard, balancing on the verge of insanity, and 13 years later, on the eve of a retrospective of his work, she shot herself. "Jacqueline with Crossed Arms" is one of the most famous portraits of Picasso's last muse. 
Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline with Arms Crossed, 1954
Jacqueline Rock, 1955
