Marie-thérèse walter photos
Marie-thérèse walter photos
Picasso's radiant 1934 portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter...
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Lover of Pablo Picasso (1909–1977)
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.
The relationship began when she was only seventeen years old and Picasso was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. It ended after Picasso moved on to his next relationship, with artist Dora Maar. Walter is known as Picasso's "golden muse" and inspired numerous artworks and sculptures that he created of her during their relationship.
Biography
Marie-Thérèse Walter was born on 13 July 1909 in Le Perreux, France.[1] She was the illegitimate child of a French woman and a Swedish businessman.[2]
Early years with Picasso
On 8 January 1927, Walter first met Picasso in front of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris.[3] At the time, she was living with her mother and sisters at Maisons-Alfort, a suburb southea