Pierre widmaier

Diana widmaier picasso
Olivier picasso wife
The grandson of Pablo Picasso, Olivier Widmaier Picasso has released an expansive documentary exploring the life and posthumous legal legacy of his grandfather.

•

Pablo Picasso. Fernande Olivier with a black mantilla. 1905-1906. Oil on canvas. 100 x 81 cm. Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Thannhauser Collection. Donated by Hilde Thannhauser, 1991. 91.3914

Fernande Olivier is another of the inhabitants of the museum to be found housed within the Picasso museum. She is known for having been Picasso's first muse and for having written two books about their relationship. The story of Olivier is so intense that it has even been recently re-told by the author Isabel Clara-Simó.

Let it be known, however, that Fernande’s real name was Amélie Lang. Born in Paris on the 6^th of June in 1881, she had a turbulent childhood and ended up in the custody of a sister of her mother, who wished to force her into marriage. She ran away and instead married a man who she later left in 1900 because he was maltreating her. It was at this point that she chose to adopt the pseudonym Fernande Olivier, in order for her identity to remain hidden.

Four years later, in 1904, Fernande met Picasso. The Andalusian artist had moved to Paris for good after four

•

Pablo Picasso was born on 25 October 1881 in Málaga, Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blanco, he began to draw at an early age. In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there at La Lonja, the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1897, Picasso continued his studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1900, Picasso’s first exhibition took place in Barcelona, and later that year he went to Paris for the first of several stays during the early years of the century. Picasso eventually settled in Paris in April 1904, and soon his circle of friends included Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein, as well as two dealers, Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill.

Picasso’s style developed from the Blue Period (1901-04) to the Rose Period (1904-06) to the pivotal work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and the subsequent evolution of Cubism from an Analytic phase (ca. 1908-11), through its Synthetic phase (beginning in 1912). Picasso’s collaboration on ballet and theatr

•

Perspectives on Picasso 1973–2023: Olivier Widmaier Picasso Rediscovers His Grandfather on Film

O livier Widmaier Picasso, the grandson of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Therese Walter, is a lawyer, author and co-producer of a comprehensive new biography of his grandfather, 'Picasso, The Legacy' (aka 'Picasso, L’inventaire D'Une Vie' ), co-produced with ARTE France, Welcome, RMN-Grand Palais and Gedeon Productions, and supported by Sotheby's.

The documentary is an epic overview of the artist's life, reflecting on his artistic evolution from birth to death and the friends, rivals, lovers and global events that shaped that journey. It also adds a dimension hitherto unexplored in film by a member of the Picasso family, namely the incredibly complex legal narrative that unfolded following the artist's death in 1973. Alongside the retelling of Picasso's creative life, the narrative incorporates a phalanx of lawyers and estate executors, explaining their part in unraveling the tangled thicket of Picasso's archives and liabilities, from an inventory of several tens of thousands of works.