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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. Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old.
Mar 10, 2018 · Marie-Thérèse Walter was just 17 years old, a bourgeois girl who lived at home with her mother and sisters in Maisons-Alfort. She had come into Paris to buy a col Claudine – a Peter Pan collar – and matching cuffs. Picasso, then 45, marched straight up to her, gave his name, and asked to do her portrait.
May 18, 2022 · Pablo Picasso’s most curious painting of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, in which she appears as a tentacled sea creature, has sold for $67.5 million, over the estimate of $60 million. “Femme nue...
Sep 22, 2023 · The relationship between Marie-Thérèse Walter and Picasso features in episode two on BBC iPlayer.
Marie-Thérèse Walter, the subject of this sensuous painting, met the artist in 1927, when she was seventeen and he was forty-five. She became his lover and muse soon after.
Oct 26, 2023 · The magic of Picasso: the artist’s radiant 1934 portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter. Painted amidst a tumultuous period in the artist’s life, this colourful portrait of the artist’s famous muse reflects the inspiration behind the body of work hailed as his greatest since Cubism. Auction Highlights; 20th & 21st Century Art; 27 October 2023
Apr 7, 2022 · Painted in April 1932, 90 years ago to the month, Femme nue couchée is one of Pablo Picasso’s most monumental and uninhibitedly sensual portrayals of Marie-Thérèse Walter.
