Olga Khokhlova was Picasso’s first wife and the mother of his first-born son, Paulo. After being rejected by Irène Lagut and after the death of Eva Gouel, Picasso was in his 30s and wanted to settle down. On the rebound from Irène, Picasso went to Rome with the Ballets Russes under the direction of Sergei…
–Eva Gouel Picasso and Fernande Olivier were together for many years. Near the end of their relationship, Picasso and Olivier were friends with the artist Louis Marcoussis and his girlfriend, Marcelle Humbert. Olivier had started an affair with Ubaldo Oppi and she had wanted Humbert to cover for her. When Picasso ended the relationship with…
If you go to up the hill to Montmartre in Paris and find 13, rue de Ravignan, you will find the site of the Bateau Lavoir, the unofficial designation given to the building where a conglomeration of artists and writers lived in the early 1900s. Some of the residents of the then dilapidated old wooden…
I finished watching the French language film La bande à Picasso (with English subtitles) on Amazon today. I highly recommend this cute and entertaining film if you are interested in Picasso’s life when he first lived in Paris in the early 1900’s. The film was made in 2012 and was directed by Fernando Colomo of Spain. …
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