In 1932 it was his “annus mirabilis” Pablo Picasso and a portrait of his muse and mistress, her Marie-Thérèse Walterwhich he created in April of that year and is estimated to fetch more than $ 60 million at Sotheby’s auction in New York next month.
The table «New couch women» will debut at auction on May 17 and marks a turning point in the artist’s career and relationship with Walter; later, they had a daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso. They met in 1927, when Walter was just 17 years old and Picasso was still married to dancer Olga Khokhlova. It took until 1932 for Picasso to make their love known. Walter took center stage in his artistic creation, in a series of portraits, including one in which his young lover is portrayed as a sea creature – Walter was a poor swimmer and Picasso never learned to swim.
“When presented in its retrospective 1932 exhibition, this cycle of monumental works shone with the ecstatically romantic and sensual depiction of Picasso’s isolated mistress,” said Brooke Lampley, head of art sales worldwide at Sotheby’s. “A complete departure from tradition, this impressive painting is a deep lyrical ode to the artist’s boundless desire for Marie-Thérèse …” (https://www.instagram.com/p/CcDKKgPOKmE/).
Another portrait of Walter by Picasso, the «Woman Assisting a Window (Marie-Thérèse), October 30, 1932», goes to auction at Christie’s in New York, valued at $ 55 million. “There are many important years in the great, impressive career of Pablo Picasso, but 1932 stands out as particularly significant,” Julian Dawes, head of Modern Art, Americas at Sotheby’s, said in a statement. “His portraits of Marie-Thérèse are the most desirable and defining works of all his artistic creation, and ‘Femme nue couchée’ is one of the most exceptional ever to be auctioned.”
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