Picasso and Marie-Thérèse
Subtitle: l'amour fou
By: curated by John Richardson and Diana Widmaier Picasso
Contributors: Gagosian Gallery
Publisher: Gagosian Gallery; Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780847837137
Subjects: Women in art; Portraits; Influence; Exhibitions; Relations with women
Other titles: Picasso; Amour fou Picasso and Marie-Thérèse
Description: Pablo Picasso met Marie-Therese Walter in Paris in 1927 when she was 17 and he 45 and married to the Russian ballet dancer Olga Koklova, whom he eventually left for the younger woman. This catalogue examines Picasso's endless fascination with his lover's character and form, which led to some of the artist's most popular works.--
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, Apr. 14-June 25, 2011.

Flip book of photographs of Marie-Thérèse Walter (8 x 4 cm.) housed in pocket attacted to p. [69].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter  -- John Richardson; title: The Marie-Thérèse years: a frenzied diologue for the sleeping muse, or the rebirth of Picasso's plastic laboratory  -- Diana Widmaier Picasso; title: Plates --; title: The image of Picasso-sculptor in the 1930s  -- Elizabeth Cowling; title: Lydia from the other side of the world-- -- John Richardson.