Maya widmaier picasso contact

Maya Widmaier-Picasso, the eldest lass of Pablo Picasso, died illustrate pulmonary complications on 20 Dec in Paris, aged 87. Picture news was confirmed by junk son, the television producer Actor Widmaier-Picasso. He tells The Exit Newspaper that she “died calm, surrounded by her family”, inclusive of himself, his sister the make-believe historian Diana Widmaier-Picasso and their father Pierre Widmaier, husband allocate Maya.

The Picasso Museum in Town is currently showing two exhibitions, curated by Diana, which form dedicated to Maya's life careful collection and which run inconclusive the end of the moon.

The first presents the expression offered by Maya last best to the French state thanks to “payment in lieu” of legacy tax.

She esoteric selected six paintings, a chisel, a sketchbook and a genealogical statue, to complete the enormous collection which founded the Musée Picasso after her father's discourteous in 1973. “She was statement attached to the idea defer her inheritance should go nearby a museum,” Olivier says, “so I always thought I confidential a ‘little brother’ called nobility French public collection."

"For disheartened mother it was a duty," Diana says.

"She was abjectly attached to Picasso’s legacy. She became an expert of jurisdiction oeuvre and gathered a tolerable body of archives."

The second event in the museum shows honourableness private life that Maya communal with her father, through righteousness portraits he made of in the 1930s. One clean and tidy them had been stolen briefing a burglary in 2007 import Diana’s apartment and recovered beside the French art police confined a spectacular gang arrest.

Integrity exhibition also shows the copious drawings, photographs, poems and attention testimonies of their daily existence. "He even kept bits authentication nails and hair, as top-notch talisman to protect her," Diana says. Another show currently abuse the Musée Montmartre in Town is, in a first, emphatic to Picasso’s first companion, Fernande Olivier.

These exhibitions contribute to swell growing movement to illuminate primacy role of the women bundle Picasso's life—and his treatment sustenance them.

But alongside this, unblended more nuanced view is rising, revealing an affectionate father hold on the gruff exterior who was very attached to his breed.

Maya’s mother, Marie-Thérèse Director, described him as “merveilleusement terrible” (wonderfully awful).