Hidden Portraits (eBook)

Six Women Who Shaped Picasso's Life

Sue Roe (Autor)

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2025
304 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
9781324076414 (ISBN)

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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Private Lives of the Impressionists comes the first account of the women who loved Picassoand who shaped his work far more than previously acknowledged.Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thrse Walter, Dora Maar, Franoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women loved and inspired Pablo Picasso. They frequently appear as the women in his portraits, but they also pursued their own ambitions in dance, writing, painting, and more. Each transformed Picassos life and workand he theirs. Yet they have long been dismissed as simply passive models or muses.In?a groundbreaking and deeply researched account, acclaimed author Sue Roe brings to light the true stories of the women in Picassos life. Using recently discovered source material and hitherto overlooked firsthand accounts, Roe positions each woman not as a footnote in Picassos biography, but center stage, from their own point of view.All six lived remarkable, unconventional lives on their own terms. Each was tested not only by the subterfuges and betrayals of the art worlds most notorious womanizer, but also by the wider social turbulence of their time. Hidden Portraits traces each womans story across nearly a century, from bohemian early-twentieth-century Montmartre to the glittering Riviera in the 1920s, from Paris under Nazi occupation to Picassos death, and beyond. Roe unearths the ways these women influenced every stage of Picassos work, from his sketches to masterpieces like Guernica.Under her eye, we recognize Fernande in the early Rose Period paintings; Olga draped across an armchair; Marie-Thrse asleep in a painting of a woman dreaming; Dora in Picassos weeping women; Franoise in his paintings of domestic life; Jacqueline as the raven-haired figure frequenting his late-in-life drawings.Spanning seventy years and traveling between the cafs of Paris and the Cte dAzur, Roe reclaims a set of brilliant women, and in the process rewrites a vital chapter in the history of modern art.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 6 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: 20th century • ART • Art History • betrayal • Cubism • Dora Maar • Feminism • Fernande Olivier • Francoise Gilot • Jacqueline Roque • marie-therese walter • modernism • olga khokhlova • Picasso
• ISBN-13: 9781324076414 / 9781324076414