Maya Ruiz Picasso

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María de la Concepción, nicknamed Maya, was born on September 5, 1935. She was Pablo Picasso's first daughter, and the fruit of his passionate love affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, a young blonde woman he met ine in 1927, who invaded his painting from the early 1930s, and gave rise to one of the most prolific periods of his career.

The announced arrival of this child in the couple's life, which precipitated the artist's separation from his first wife Olga Khokhlova, married in 1918, initially generated a great deal of interest.The arrival of this child in the couple's lives, which precipitated the artist's separation from his first wife Olga Khokhlova, whom he had married in 1918, initially led to the production of a body of cryptic works in which Picasso expressed the inner upheaval that was taking place in his personal life.

Shortly after the birth, he depicted the intimate moments of this new family life with tenderness, and Maya became one of his favorite subjects, particularly between January 1938 and October 1939, when he devoted fourteen portraits to her.

Aiming to bring together a significant number of these portraits, the exhibition "Maya Ruiz-Picasso, fille de Pablo" (Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Pablo's daughter) proposes to reread part of Picasso's work through the prism of this filial relationship, and to highlight the complicity between the two artists.vidence the complicity between father and daughter, and highlight the way in which Maya's presence nourished and amplified the artist's fascination with childhood.

Through major works from the 1930s - portraits of Maya and Marie-Thérèse - sculptures and paper cut-outs, as well as memorabilia including correspondence, letters, poems and personal objects, the project aims to tell this specific part of Picasso's intimate story.

Complemented by a large selection of partly unpublished photographs, the exhibition will also explore Picasso's relationship with his children, particularly in the context of his Cannes years, during which the artist shared happy moments with his four reunited children.

Admission included.