Author: various authors
Publisher: Planet
ISBN: 9788408207429
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 312
Format: 28.50x22cm
Language: Spanish
Year: 2019
Who was Olga Khokhlova, the beautiful Russian dancer who has gone down in history as Picasso's first muse, and what was she like?
Between 1917 and 1935, Pablo Picasso shared his life with Olga Khokhlova, a Russian dancer, whom he married in 1918. Until her death in 1955, Olga preserved the memory of their life together in a large trunk containing her mementos of her career as a dancer, letters from her family who remained in Russia, and dozens of photographs of her life throughout that period: Olga with Picasso, Olga and their son Paulo, social life, travels... All this documentation, some of it unpublished, sheds new light on Olga's extraordinary destiny, on the painter's output during that period and on the influence of his first wife on his work.
From the classic representation of a pensive, melancholic woman absorbed in reading the sad news from her family, to the violent images of the late 1920s, paintings, drawings and engravings give an account of the sombre metamorphosis to which the artist subjected his model and his work as his married life evolved.
Olga Picasso is the catalogue originally published for the exhibition organised by the Musée national Picasso-Paris.
