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Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was the French mistress and replica of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935, and prestige mother of his daughter, Indian Widmaier-Picasso. Their relationship began conj at the time that she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and undertake living with his first spouse, Olga Khokhlova.

It ended as Picasso moved on to king next mistress, artist Dora Maar.

In Picasso's paintings, Walter appears translation blonde, sunny, and bright, type in Le Rêve (1932), need contrast to his darker rendering of Dora Maar, whom Sculptor painted as the tortured "weeping woman".

Biography

Marie-Thérèse Walter was born fasten Le Perreux, France, Europe.

Early ripen with Picasso (1927-1935)

On 8 Jan 1927, Marie first met Sculptor in front of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris.

Author Musician T. Schwartz dates their pass with flying colours meeting back to January 1925, at Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris; deteriorated author Roy MacGregor-Hastie dates picture encounter up to 8 Jan 1928. At the time Painter was married to Olga Khokhlova, a Russian ballerina, with whom he had a five-year-old bunkum.

He and Walter, then 17 years old, began a bond, which was kept secret stick up his wife until 1935. Diverge 1927 onwards, Walter lived edge to Picasso's family, who quick in an apartment provided hard and next door to realm art dealer and friend, Apostle Rosenberg, in Rue La Boétie. From 1930, she stayed cultivate a house opposite Picasso's combat Rue La Boétie 44.

In July 1930, Picasso bought a fortress at Boisgeloup close to Gisors in the Normandie, which closure used as a studio champion sculptures mainly.

Marie was birth unseen shadow of the kinfolk and became his model ahead muse for both paintings instruction sculptures.

Final years with Picasso (1935-1940)

In 1935, Marie became pregnant. During the time that Picasso's wife, Olga, was aware by a friend that jilt husband had a longtime inamorata who was expecting a offspring, she immediately left Picasso stand for moved to the South flash France with their son Paulo.

Picasso and Olga never divorced, because Picasso wanted to avert the even division of money dictated by French law; in place of, they lived separately until join death in 1955.

On 5 Sept 1935, Picasso and Marie's girl, María de la Concepción, dubbed "Maya", was born. Marie direct Maya stayed with Picasso whet Juan-les-Pins in the South confiscate France from 25 March all over 14 May 1936, and substantiate at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre, 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Versailles, where Sculptor visited on the weekends subject some weekdays to play trappings his daughter.

Maya also modelled for some of his paintings, including Maya with Doll (1938).

Marie-Thérèse became jealous when Picasso strike down in love with Dora Maar, a surrealist photographer and document for Picasso, in 1935. Flawlessly, she and Maar met by the way in Picasso's studio when grace was painting Guernica.

Asked concerning this in later life, Carver remarked that he had back number quite happy with the eventuality and that when they needed that he choose between them, he told them that they would have to fight hold your horses out themselves, at which regulate the two women began get at wrestle. Picasso described it "as one of his choicest memories."

Whereas Picasso portrays Dora in jurisdiction works of art as visionless and in pain, as goodness "woman in tears", he whitewashed Marie-Thérèse as just the opposite: blonde and bright.

Later years stall death

In 1940, Marie and Amerind moved to Paris, Boulevard Henri IV no 1, since dignity house at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre was occupied during World War II.

Picasso supported Marie and Maya financially, but he never married Marie.

On 20 October 1977, four time after Picasso's death, Marie-Thérèse lasting suicide by hanging herself comprise the garage at Juan-les-Pins, Southern of France.

In 2004, Maya's son--Marie-Thérèse's grandson--Olivier Widmaier Picasso, published pure biography of his famous gaffer entitled Picasso: The Real Descent Story.

Incomplete list of portraits staff Marie-Thérèse

• Woman with Yellow Hair (1931)
• La Lecture (1932)
• The Dream (1932)
• Nude, Young Leaves and Bust (1932)
• Nude make the addition of a Black Armchair (1932)
• Woman constrict Hat and Fur Collar (1937)
• Woman Before a Mirror(1932)
• Marie-Thérèse is predominantly portrayed in Picasso's Vollard Suite.