Picasso personal biography. Great love picasso

The world has heard about the numerous love affairs of the universally recognized genius of the twentieth century, the great and unforgettable Pablo Picasso and about his descendants, who inherited the artist's multi-billion dollar fortune. Who are they, the children and grandchildren of Picasso, how did their fate develop and how far did the apples fall from the apple tree that gave birth to them. Who managed to get out of the shadow of a brilliant ancestor and become successful, and who remained only the offspring of the great Picasso.

Art investigation of the personal life of a genius

"The greatest genius, the devil in the flesh, the hard-hearted sadist, the omnivorous despot" ...- it's all about him - the "great and terrible" Pablo Picasso, the largest figure in the world art history of the last century. "His ruthless talent crushed everything: material rubbish, ideas of friends, random thoughts, women in love ... He created chaos around him and was disorderly in relationships ... He fell in love passionately, with all the might of the Spanish temperament, and saw a goddess in each of his chosen ones"... But, alas, this lightning passion ended as quickly as it began. First of all, he valued each new chosen one as a source of inspiration. And as soon as the next Muse became indifferent to the artist, he mercilessly left her out of his life.

Only two "goddesses" Picasso got the status of an official wife. And two more, being in a long-term relationship with the artist and having given birth to children, earned the honorary right to be considered unofficial wives. As a result of numerous novels and not so numerous marriages, Picasso became the father of four children recognized by him.

Paulo - the artist's firstborn

Picasso's firstborn was born in 1921 from a marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. The newly-made father at that time was already forty, the baby was named Paulo, Paul - in the French manner.

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In addition, he was so carried away by the idea of ​​fatherhood that he very often began to depict his son in different images. However, the gradually formed gap between Pablo and Olga inexorably moved them away from each other, and even the baby was no longer able to bring them closer. The artist actually ended all relations with Khokhlova five years after the birth of his son, although officially she was considered his wife until her death.

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And Pablo completely ceased to be interested in the life of his grown-up son, he believed that he did not live up to his hopes. "Worthless creature! Anarchist! Offspring of the White Guard! ”, Picasso did not pick up expressions very much, speaking of his already adult heir.

... And Paulo swam with the current of addictions, moving further and further away from the realities of life. Alcohol and drugs did their job - Picasso's first-born lived only a couple of years longer than his father, without having time to use the ill-fated inheritance ...

The offspring of Paulo are the grandchildren of Picasso

Paulo, combined with his first marriage to Emilienne Lott, made the eminent artist a grandfather. The first grandson was named after his grandfather - Pablo, Pablito (1949), the granddaughter was named Marina (1950). There was also a second grandson from his second marriage - Bernard (1959).

The fate of the first grandson was tragic. At the age of 24, on the day of his grandfather's death, he, being in a state of passion, took a lethal dose of a chemical. The doctors were powerless to help the guy, although they fought for his life for about three months. And everything happened due to the fact that Jacqueline Rock, Picasso's widow, did not let Pablito into the house and did not allow him to attend his grandfather's funeral.

Granddaughter Marina, years later, will write the book "Picasso: my grandfather." These memoirs will be filled with bitterness and accusations, remorse and resentment. And they will, of course, be addressed to Pablo: “Directly or indirectly, he is also responsible for the death of my brother. My grandfather had great power over my family, and by his grace we lived in poverty for twenty years.”

At the age of 25, Picasso's granddaughter inherited 10,000 of his works. This begs the question - did it bring her good? “I received an inheritance without love,” she once said publicly. Apparently that's why all the time and tried to get rid of the bitter memory. Many paintings of the ingenious grandfather have already been sold, it is planned to sell everything else that is connected with the memory of the eminent relative, and she set aside the proceeds for her children as an inheritance. And she has neither more nor less than five of them. In addition to two of her own, this amazing woman raised three adopted in Vietnam.

And once, living in poverty next to a rich grandfather, she earned a living by caring for children who were lagging behind in development. Later, becoming an heiress, she took up charity work: in the mid-90s she built a children's hospital and a whole village for orphans in Vietnam, donated a lot of money from her grandfather's paintings to children's charitable foundations. Marina Picasso claims that by selling her collection, she hopes to "let go of the past."

Bernard Picasso - the artist's third grandson

Bernard and his wife are now the head of the Arts Foundation, which provides access to archival documents and paintings inherited from Pablo Picasso. And he is also part of the leadership of the Picasso Museum, which they founded together with their mother, the second wife of Paulo, in Malaga in 2003.

The second daughter of the painter - Maya and her three children

Picasso's second child was a daughter born in 1935 to Marie-Therese Walter, Picasso's muse and mistress in 1929-1937. According to the documents, Pablo appeared as the godfather of the baby, who was named Maya.

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“It’s amazing how with two crazy parents I grew up normal!”,- said Maya Widmayer-Picasso.

Today, 80-year-old Maya and her husband live in Paris on the Quai Voltaire. Their children - Olivier, Richard and Diana - are the successors of the Picasso dynasty. All of them are lawyers by training.

Olivier Widmeier-Picasso(b. 1961) is a consultant to the "Picasso Heritage Administration", where he represents the interests of the master's heirs, protects copyrights and pursues fakes. Since Picasso has become the most exhibited painter in the world, and his works break all records in terms of the number of fakes and thefts.

Richard Widmeier-Picasso(born 1966) tried himself in various fields - both in law and in art, and was also engaged in the restaurant business.

Diana Widmayer-Picasso(born 1974), having left the practice of a lawyer, she realized herself as an art critic. Now he works as a curator and organizer of exhibitions, gives advice to art dealers and collectors.

Son Claude and daughter Paloma Picasso

1943 in the life of the maestro was marked by the fact that a new love came into the life of Picasso. It was a young artist Francoise Gilot - smart, beautiful, bright, energetic. Francoise gave birth to two children to the artist, but the relationship, which lasted about ten years, was not legalized. For those reasons that Picasso stubbornly did not want to dissolve the marriage with Olga Khokhlova, so that, according to the contract, he would not lose half of his fortune.

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Family Album (1943-1954)

Now Claude is over 70, he is married, has two sons, lives in Geneva. He is thorough and prudent, has the talent of an excellent manager - only he could be entrusted with the leadership of the "Heritage Administration" by the incredulous clan of descendants.

The last child of the artist was the daughter of Paloma, in which the genetic inclinations of her father were widely revealed. She inherited a creative streak, and enterprise, and eccentricity, and a massive family nose.

And in what only she did not look for herself: in painting, and in jewelry, and in the design of accessories. In fairness, it should be noted that the first attempts in the field of haute couture were a significant success, and by 1971 Paloma was already a sought-after designer. Her artistic taste by nature attracted the attention of various jewelry manufacturers. She also designed bags and shoes, and created models from fur.
By the way, this eccentric person even managed to star in a scandalous erotic film. And then she built her own business empire. Perfume brand "Paloma Picasso" entered the world market. Heredity also affected here - Paloma's maternal grandfather was a perfumer!

Paloma had three marriages. She is still very energetic and manages to manage the business "in her own name", collaborates with Tiffani, popularizes the work of her mother, the artist Francoise Gilot, whose work is little known in Europe.

And whatever you say, the scale of the personality of a brilliant modernist is such that in its shadow it is not at all easy to fulfill oneself and secure a personal name for oneself. Although Palome Picasso still succeeded.

And in conclusion, I would like to note that between the children and grandchildren of Picasso there are no close family relationships that would allow them to unite into a large strong family. All of them are held together only by a common interest, the center of which remains the personality and creativity of their brilliant ancestor. The true relationship between the offspring of the artist is vividly characterized by the phrase of one of them: "It's impossible to believe that we have the same father"...

No matter how heartthrob and destroyer of women's souls Picasso was considered, he also had bright and romantic feelings. , which left its mark on a whole series of his canvases, still warmly recalls the time spent with the brilliant artist.

As I wrote in a previous post about the film "Picasso", after watching it I wanted to learn more about the life and work of this artist.

Found this wonderful collection rigenser

This post contains a lot of interesting facts, most of which became known to me thanks to the movie "Picasso".

I copy for myself (Neznakomka_18)

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"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!
(maybe it was my fantasy, but I see at least four of his self-portraits here! (Neznakomka_18)

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.
In 3 hours, several thousand bombs were dropped on Guernica, as a result of which the 6,000th city was destroyed.

Picasso was so struck by what happened that he expressed his emotions on the canvas. "Guernica" was written in just a month.

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."

(This story was included in the film and I was very impressed. What fearlessness and what resourcefulness !!! (Neznakomka_18 )

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.

In 1892-1895 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in A Coruña, in 1895-1897 - at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, ​​where he received a gold medal for the painting "Science and Charity" (1897).

In 1950, Picasso was elected to the World Peace Council.

In the 1950s, the artist painted many variations on the theme of famous masters of the past, resorting to the cubist style of writing: "Algerian women. According to Delacroix" (1955), "Breakfast on the grass. According to Manet" (1960), "Girls on the banks of the Seine. According to Courbet" (1950), "Menins. According to Velasquez" (1957).

In 1958, Picasso created the composition "The Fall of Icarus" for the Paris building of UNESCO.

In the 1960s, Picasso created a monumental sculpture 15 meters high for a community center in Chicago.

- one of the most "expensive" artists in the world - the estimate (pre-sale estimate) of his work exceeds hundreds of millions of dollars.

Pablo Picasso was married twice. In 1918, he married Olga Khokhlova (1891-1955), a ballerina from the Diaghilev troupe. In this marriage, the artist had a son, Paul (1921-1975). After Olga's death in 1961, the artist married Jacqueline Rock (1927-1986). Picasso also had illegitimate children - daughter Maya from Marie-Thérèse Walter, son Claude and daughter Paloma from the artist Francoise Gilot.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Pablo Picasso (10/25/1881 - 04/08/1973) - Spanish artist, graphic artist, sculptor, ceramist. He made a serious contribution to the development of fine arts, one of the founders of cubism. He is the author of incalculable works that are leaders in their value and more often than others are abducted.

Young years

Pablo was born in the provincial Spanish city of Malaga, later the family moved to Barcelona. He took his mother's surname because his father's seemed too simple to him. Picasso was convinced that the desire to create was passed on to him by his mother, who told him fairy tales based on the impressions experienced over the past day.

The boy followed in the footsteps of his father Jose Ruiz, who was an artist, and from the age of seven he began to master the technique of drawing, adding paintings to Jose. The first own work "Picador", written at the age of 8, which he carefully kept all his life. When Pablo was thirteen, he was entrusted with finishing most of the still life. There is a version that the boy's father, having seen the result, gave up fine arts.

In a week, Picasso prepared for the entrance exams to the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona and passed them with ease, despite being too young. In those days, the best art school was in Madrid, and José dreamed that his son would study there. In 1897, Pablo moved to the capital. He was more interested in the experience of artists, and not in the classical lectures that made the young man sad. He studied works in museums, visited Paris for the first time.

A year later, Picasso returned to Barcelona, ​​where he became a member of the Els Quatre Gats community of artists. In the cafe of the same name in 1900, his first exhibitions took place. Here he met his friends H. Sabartes and K. Casajemas, who later became the heroes of his works.

The artist's work was productive and was always in a state of development. Therefore, it is customary to consider his creative life by periods.

Blue and pink periods (1901-1906)

The artist began to travel to Paris, where he studied impressionism. In those years, he faced difficulties. His friend Carlos Casajemas committed suicide, which made Picasso very worried. Works before 1904 are classified as "blue period". Then the artist's style was characterized by sad images, themes of poverty and death. His characters were alcoholics, fallen women, blind men and beggars. Blue hues predominated in the color palette. The works of that time include "Woman with a Chignon", "Absinthe Drinker", "Date", "Tragedy", etc.

Since 1904, when Picasso moved to Paris, where he settled in a poor hostel for artists, the “pink period” began here. The world-famous “Girl on the Ball” is attributed to the transitional time. The colors on the artist's canvases come to life, pink and golden tones appear. The theme is replaced by theatrical and circus, and wandering artists become the heroes of the paintings. In the life of the artist, the model Fernanda Olvier appears, which greatly influenced the biography of Pablo Picasso and became his inspiration. Then the following were written: "Jester", "Seated Harlequin", "Girl with a Goat", etc.

"Family of comedians" (1905) - there is an assumption that the canvas depicts people from the artist's entourage

Transition to cubism

If in the early stages Picasso experimented with colors, transferring emotions to the canvas, then after 1906 he began to study the form, take an interest in sculpture, African culture, and collect ritual masks. He became uninterested in drawing a specific person, Pablo was attracted by forms and structure, their distortions. The first work of the new style - "The Girls of Avignon" - plunged the artist's friends into a real shock. In 1907, he met Georges Braque, with whom they became the authors of a completely new direction - cubism.

At first, the works of Picasso of the new period were in brownish-greenish tones, somewhat blurry, the image consisted of simple forms (“Three women”, “Woman with a fan”, “Can and bowls”). In 1909-1910, the subject is depicted as consisting of smaller parts with a clear division (“Portrait of Fernanda Olivier”, “Portrait of Kahnweiler”). Further, concrete objects, still lifes, collage style appear in the paintings (“Bottle of Pernod”, “Violin and Guitar”).

"Portrait of Vollard" (1910), the author considered the best cubist portrait. Picasso's paintings are beginning to sell well, despite the rejection of cubism by the majority. By 1909, Pablo's financial situation was improving, and he moved to a large workshop.

The period of cubism ends with the onset of the First World War, when he had to part with many like-minded people, including J. Braque. But Picasso will use certain techniques of the cubist style in his works for a long time to come.

Russian ballet and surrealism

In 1916, Picasso was invited to take part in the production of the Russian ballet by S. Diaghilev. This idea fascinated the artist, together with the ballet troupe he goes to Rome, where he is engaged in scenery and costume designs. There he meets the ballerina Olga Khokhlova, whom he marries in Paris in 1918. In 1921, their son was born. At the same time, the artist changes his style somewhat, light colors appear in his works (“Bathers”, “Portrait of Olga in an Armchair”).

Since 1925, a difficult period began in the family life and creative activity of the artist, combined with the influence of surrealist moods. In his paintings, there are signs of aggression, absurdity, hysteria, torn images (“Woman in an armchair”, “Seated bather”). In 1932, he meets Marie-Therese Walter, who becomes his model and gives birth to his daughter. Picasso creates sculptures ("Reclining Woman", "Design", etc.).

War and post-war

In the 1930s, the image of a bull appeared on the artist's canvases, bringing with him aggression and death. During the war in 1937, the Spanish city of Guernica was destroyed. Against the background of these events, Picasso creates his “Guernica” - a large canvas 8 meters long and 3.5 meters wide in black and white. The picture conveys the pain and horror of the people who suffered from the German raiders. The war greatly influenced the artist's works, which became gloomy and disturbing ("Slaughterhouse", "Weeping Woman").

In 1945, Pablo meets Françoise Gilot, the future mother of his two children. This woman inspires the artist to create canvases with family images. After moving to the Mediterranean south of France, he is fond of ceramics, his work becomes more harmonious and ironic. Among them are many dishes, plates, sculptures. In 1949, the artist creates the well-known "Dove of Peace". In 1953, Francoise leaves Pablo because of his difficult nature and betrayals.

Picasso marries again in 1958, Jacqueline Roque, who is half his age, becomes his chosen one, he painted more than 400 portraits for his wife. Among the paintings of the 50s, the most famous are variations of works by Manet, Goya, Delacroix and others.

Picasso with his wife J. Roque - photo presented at the Picasso and Jacqueline exhibition in New York

The last years of the artist

At the end of his life, Picasso was characterized by diverse works, however, as always, female images were in the lead. His last muse was the artist's faithful wife to the end. Jacqueline took care of him until his last days, when he became blind, almost did not hear and was very ill. Picasso died in the French city of Mougins, buried at his castle Vauvenargues.

During the life of the artist, his friend in 1963 created a museum with works by Picasso in Barcelona, ​​now it occupies five mansions and has more than 3.5 thousand exhibits. In 1985, the Picasso Museum in Paris was opened, and in 2003, a museum in Malaga. The artist had a strong influence on the culture of his time.

Curious facts

• Starting his work in begging, the great artist died a multimillionaire.
• Women of Algeria left a New York auction for $179 million in 2015. A more expensive painting has not yet been sold at any auction in the world.
• According to experts, Picasso created more than twenty thousand works.
• The automobile company Citroen named several models of cars after the artist.
• Picasso's youngest daughter Paloma is a designer at Tiffany, a multinational jewelry company.
• After the death of Pablo Picasso, several of his relatives also passed away: the grandson from his first wife drank bleach on the day of the artist’s funeral because of the ban on attending the ceremony; in 1975, son Paul died of cirrhosis; Marie-Therese Walter committed suicide in 1977; in 1986 - Picasso's widow Jacqueline.

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"For me, there are only two types of women - goddesses and rags for wiping feet." Pablo Picasso

"Mystery", "Madness", "Magic" - these are the first words that came to the minds of patrons when they tried to describe the creation of Pablo Picasso. The special aura of the artist was colored by his explosive, Spanish temperament and genius. This is a combination that women could not resist.

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Picasso in his youth and older age

Picasso was an amazing man with the very attractive charm that is now called charisma. However, many women could not come to terms with the character of the artist and committed suicide or went crazy. At the age of 8, Pablo had already written his first serious work, Picador. At the age of 16, Picasso, as if jokingly, entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He dropped out just as easily. Instead of poring over books, Pablo and his friends began to play tricks on the Madrid brothels.

At the age of 19, the artist went to conquer Paris. Before leaving, Picasso painted a self-portrait. At the top of the picture, he signed in black paint: "I am the king!". However, in the capital of France, the “king” had a hard time. There was no money. One winter, in order not to freeze, he stoked a stone fireplace with his own work.

On the personal front, things were much better.

Women have always adored Picasso.

The first beloved Fernanda Olivier

His first lover was Fernanda Olivier (she was 18, he was 23 years old). In Paris, Pablo Picasso lives in a poor quarter in Montmartre, in a hostel where aspiring artists settled, and where Fernanda Olivier sometimes poses for them. There she meets Picasso, becomes his model and his girlfriend. The lovers lived in poverty. In the mornings they stole croissants and milk. Gradually, Picasso's paintings began to be bought.

Pablo Picasso, Fernanda Olivier and Jaquin Reventos. Barcelona, ​​1906

They lived together for almost a decade, and a large number of both Fernanda's own portraits and, in general, female images painted from her remained from this period.

"Fernanda in a black mantilla", 1905

According to the researchers, she was also a model for the creation of the Avignon Maidens, one of the main paintings by Picasso, a turning point for the art of the twentieth century.

But there was a time when they lived apart (summer and autumn 1907). This summer left bad memories. Both he and she had affairs with others. But the worst thing was that he lived with a woman who did not understand cubism at all, she did not like him. Perhaps Picasso was experiencing an organic depression; later, when he returned to Paris, he was struck by a stomach ailment. His pre-ulcerative state. From now on, the relationship between the brush and the canvas will not go to waste for the artist - cubism, as a complex, was as simple as playing chess in three dimensions. And they parted - Picasso and Fernanda.

Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova

True love came to the artist in 1917, when he met one of Sergei Diaghilev's ballerinas, Olga Khokhlova. The history of their relationship began on May 18, 1917, when Olga danced at the premiere of the ballet "Parade" at the Chatelet Theater. The ballet was created by Sergei Diaghilev, Eric Satie and Jean Cocteau, with Pablo Picasso responsible for the costumes and set design.

Photo portrait of Olga Khokhlova.

Olga Khokhlova, Picasso, Maria Shabelskaya and Jean Cocteau in Paris, 1917.

After they met, the troupe went on tour to South America, and Olga went with Picasso to Barcelona. The artist introduced her to his family. Mother didn't like her. Olga is a foreigner, Russian, not a match for her brilliant son! Life will show that the mother was right. Olga and Picasso were married on June 18, 1918 in the Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Cathedral. Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob were witnesses at the wedding.

"Portrait of Olga in an armchair", 1917

After they met, the troupe went on tour to South America, and Olga went with Picasso to Barcelona. The artist introduced her to his family. Mother didn't like her. Olga is a foreigner, Russian, not a match for her brilliant son! Life will show that the mother was right.

Olga and Picasso were married on June 18, 1918 in the Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Cathedral. Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob were witnesses at the wedding.

In July 1919, they went to London for the new premiere of the Russian Ballet - the ballet "Cocked Hat" (Spanish "El Sombrero de tres Picos", French "Le Tricorne"), for which Picasso again created costumes and scenery.

The ballet was also performed at the Alhambra in Spain and was a great success at the Paris Opera in 1919. It was a time when they were happily married and often participated in public events.

On February 4, 1921, Olga's son Paulo (Paul) was born. From that moment on, the relationship of the spouses began to deteriorate rapidly.

Olga squandered her husband's money, and he was desperately angry. And the most important reason for disagreement was the role imposed by Olga Picasso. She wanted to see him as a salon portrait painter, a commercial artist, spinning in high society and receiving orders there.

"Nude in a red armchair", 1929

Such a life bored the genius to death. This was immediately reflected in his paintings: Picasso portrayed his wife exclusively in the form of an evil old woman, whose distinctive feature was threatening long sharp teeth. Picasso saw his wife this way for the rest of his life.

Marie-Therese Walther

Photo portrait of Marie-Therese Walter.

"Woman in a red chair", 1939

In 1927, when Picasso was 46 years old, he ran away from Olga to 17-year-old Marie-Therese Walter. It was a fire, mystery, madness.

The time of love for Marie-Therese Walter was special, both in life and in creativity. The works of this period differed sharply from the previously created paintings both in style and in color. The masterpieces of the period of Marie Walter, especially before the birth of his daughter, are the pinnacle of his work.

In 1935, Olga learned from a friend about her husband's affair, and also that Maria Theresa was pregnant. Taking Paulo with her, she immediately left for the south of France and filed for divorce. Picasso refused to divide the property equally, as required by French law, and therefore Olga remained his legal wife until her death. She died of cancer in 1955 in Cannes. Picasso didn't go to the funeral. He just breathed a sigh of relief.

Dora Maar

Photograph of Dora Maar.

After the birth of a child, he cools off to Marie and gets himself another mistress - 29-year-old artist Dora Maar. One day, Dora and Marie-Thérèse met by chance in Picasso's studio when he was working on the famous Guernica. The angry women demanded that he choose one of them. Pablo replied that they should fight for him. And the ladies attacked each other with their fists.
Then the artist said that the fight between his two mistresses was the most striking event in his life. Marie-Thérèse soon hanged herself. And Dora Maar, who will forever remain in the painting "Weeping Woman".

"Weeping Woman", 1937

For the passionate Dora, the break with Picasso was a disaster. Dora ended up in the Paris psychiatric hospital of St. Anne, where she was treated with electric shocks. She was rescued from there and brought out of the crisis by an old friend, the famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. After that, Dora completely withdrew into herself, becoming for many a symbol of a woman whose life is broken by love for the cruel genius of Picasso. Secluded in her apartment near the Rue Grand-Augustin, she plunged into mysticism and astrology, and converted to Catholicism. Her life stopped, perhaps in 1944, when there was a break with Picasso.

Later, when Dora returned to painting, her style changed radically: now lyrical views of the banks of the Seine and landscapes of the Luberon came out from under her brush. Friends organized an exhibition of her work in London, but it went unnoticed. However, Dora herself did not come to the vernissage, explaining later that she was busy, as she was painting a rose in a hotel room ... Having survived for a quarter of a century the one who, according to Andre Breton, was the "crazy love" of her life, Dora Maar died in July 1997 at the age of 90, alone and in poverty. And about a year later, her portrait "Weeping Woman" was sold at auction for 37 million francs.

The love of Picasso and Dora Maar, which blossomed during the war, did not stand the test of the world. Their romance lasted seven years, and it was a story of broken, hysterical love. Could she be different? Dora Maar was passionate in feelings and creativity. She had an unbridled temperament and a fragile psyche: her bursts of energy were followed by periods of deep depression. Picasso is usually called the "sacred monster", but it seems that in human terms he was just a monster.

Françoise Gilot

The artist quickly forgot the mistresses he had abandoned. Soon he began to meet with 21-year-old Francoise Gilot, who was suitable for the master as a granddaughter. Met her in a restaurant and immediately invited her... to take a bath. In occupied Paris, hot water was a luxury, and Picasso was one of the few who could afford it.

Françoise Gilot with a flower, Vallauris, 1949