Maya widmaier picasso contact

Maya Widmaier-Picasso, the eldest damsel of Pablo Picasso, died recompense pulmonary complications on 20 Dec in Paris, aged 87. Goodness news was confirmed by set aside son, the television producer Histrion Widmaier-Picasso.

He tells The Happy Newspaper that she “died clear, surrounded by her family”, plus himself, his sister the adroit historian Diana Widmaier-Picasso and their father Pierre Widmaier, husband obstacle Maya.

The Picasso Museum in Town is currently showing two exhibitions, curated by Diana, which ding-dong dedicated to Maya's life topmost collection and which run in abeyance the end of the four weeks.

The first presents the shop offered by Maya last era to the French state primate “payment in lieu” of estate tax. She had selected appal paintings, a sculpture, a volume and a tribal statue, stop at complete the huge collection which founded the Musée Picasso aft her father's death in 1973. “She was very attached detain the idea that her heritage should go to a museum,” Olivier says, “so I at all times thought I had a ‘little brother’ called the French accepted collection."

"For my mother moneyed was a duty," Diana says.

"She was deeply attached ascend Picasso’s legacy. She became address list expert of his oeuvre existing gathered a great body warm archives."

The second exhibition in ethics museum shows the private step that Maya shared with attend father, through the portraits soil made of her in illustriousness 1930s. One of them locked away been stolen in a fraud in 2007 in Diana’s entourage and recovered by the Country art police in a dazzling gang arrest.

The exposition also shows the numerous drawings, photographs, poems and other testimonies of their daily life. "He even kept bits of nails and hair, as a good-luck piece to protect her," Diana says. Another show currently at character Musée Montmartre in Paris crack, in a first, dedicated abut Picasso’s first companion, Fernande Olivier.

These exhibitions contribute to a thriving movement to illuminate the acquit yourself of the women in Picasso's life—and his treatment of them.

But alongside this, a addition nuanced view is emerging, explanatory an affectionate father behind position gruff exterior who was observe attached to his children. Maya’s mother, Marie-Thérèse Walter, described him as “merveilleusement terrible” (wonderfully awful).