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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.
Le Repos (French, 'Rest') is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Pablo Picasso in 1932. It depicts a portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, the artist's lover and muse, in a sleeping pose. The painting was produced in the midst of their relationship and is a demonstration of Picasso's love for his mistress.
Sep 23, 2023 · In 1927, Picasso had met his mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter and the relationship with his wife had begun to break down. It had "all the cliched attributes of a mid-life crisis," says Ms Buck.
