Diana Widmaier Picasso
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Born | (1974-03-12) March 12, 1974 (age 50) Marseille, France |
Other names | Diana Widmaier–Picasso |
Occupation(s) | art historian, art curator |
Known for | Menē |
Children | 1 |
Mother | Maya Widmaier-Picasso |
Relatives | Pablo Picasso (maternal grandfather) |
Diana Widmaier Picasso (born March 12, 1974) is a French art historian specialized in modern art, living in Paris.
Life
Diana Widmaier Picasso is the daughter of Maya Widmaier-Picasso, and the maternal granddaughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter.[1][2] After a Master's degree in private Law (from Paris-Assas University), and a master's degree in art history (from Paris-Sorbonne University)—her thesis was about the art market in France in the seventeenth century—she decided to specialize in old master drawings.[3] She worked on several exhibitions in museums (Metropolitan Museum in New York, Institut Néerlandais in Paris), and later became an expert in old master drawings at Sotheby's in London and Paris for three years.
She is the co-founder with Roy Sebag and Chief Artistic Officer of a jewelry company called Menē launched in 2017.[4][5][6][7]
Diana Widmaier Picasso is involved in art organizations: Trustee MoMA PS1, New York (since 2009), Trustee Kunst-Werke, Berlin (since 2007), International Council of MoMA, New York (since 2000), Tate International Council, London (since 2005), Visiting Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 19th, 20th and 21st century Departments (since 2008), Member of Performing Art committee of the Whitney Museum, New York (since 2013).
She is also involved in non-profit organizations: Girls Inc. (organization that focuses on giving confidence to girls), Elevate New York (youth development program), Chez Bushwick (organization dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance), Education Through Music (organization that provides instruments and music classes in inner city schools).
She has a daughter born in April 2017.[citation needed]
In 2017, she was named Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[8]
In 2022, she was named Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Rima Abdul Malak.[9]
Since May 2023, she is part of the board of directors of ARTEX, world’s first and only blockchain based artpiece exchange platform.
DWP Editions - Catalogue raisonné
In 2003, Diana Widmaier Picasso created a research company called DWP Editions and started gathering information on her grandfather’s works.[10][11] Since 2013, she is working on a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures with a team of researchers (Olivia Speer and Claire Rougé).[12][13] This catalogue will present over 2000 three-dimensional works including materials like plaster, bronze, wood, terra-cotta, cardboard and paper.[14]
Curatorial works
- « Maya Ruiz-Picasso, daughter of Pablo », Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris, April 16 - December 31, 2022[15]
- « Picasso: La Scultura », Roma, Galleria Borghese, October 9, 2018 - February 3, 2019
- « Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter », Paris, Gagosian Gallery, October 18, 2017 - February 24, 2018
- « Desire », Miami, Moore Building, Art Basel Miami Beach, November 30 - December 4, 2016[16][17]
- « Picasso's Picassos: A Selection from the Collection of Maya Ruiz-Picasso », New York, Gagosian Gallery, November 10, 2016 - February 18, 2017[18][19]
- « Picasso.mania », Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 7, 2015 - February 29, 2016[20][21]
- « Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'Amour Fou », New York, Gagosian Gallery, April 14 - July 15, 2011[22][23][24]
Books
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Maya Ruiz-Picasso, fille de Pablo, Paris, Skira, 2022
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Philippe Charlier, Picasso Sorcier, Paris, Gallimard NRF, 2022
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter, New York, Gagosian, 2019
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Picasso: The Impossible Collection, New York, Assouline, 2019
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Art Can Only Be Erotic, Munich, Prestel, 2005 ISBN 3-7913-3160-4.[25]
Essays
- « A Modern Antiquity: The Series of Standing Women (1945) », Picasso Sculptor. Matter and Body (catalogue of the exhibition), Foundacion Museo Picasso Malaga / La Fabrica / Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, p. 20-27
- « Picasso & Maya / Maya & Picasso : The Drawing Lesson », Maya Ruiz Picasso, daughter of Pablo(catalogue of the exhibition), Musée national Picasso Paris, Paris, Skira, 2022, p. 123-127
- « A Taste for Childhood », Maya Ruiz Picasso, daughter of Pablo (catalogue of the exhibition), Musée national Picasso Paris, Paris, Skira, 2022, p. 170
- « Picasso’s Memorabilia », Maya Ruiz Picasso, daughter of Pablo (catalogue of the exhibition), Musée national Picasso Paris, Paris, Skira, 2022, p. 191-198
- « The Artist as a Public Figure », Maya Ruiz Picasso, daughter of Pablo (catalogue of the exhibition), Musée national Picasso Paris, Paris, Skira, 2022, p. 246
- « Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909-1977) », The Picasso Century, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, 2022, p. 192-193
- (in French) « Picasso, Rodin et la matière », Picasso - Rodin (catalogue of the exhibition), Paris, Gallimard, 2021, p. 22-33
- « Boisgeloup », « Standing Woman », « Ceramic Bottle: Standing Woman », « Standing Woman », Picasso Ibero (catalogue of the exhibition), Centro Botin Santander, La Fabrica, Madrid, 2021, p. 142, p. 148, p. 158, p. 182
- (in French) « Tête de faune », « La porteuse de jarre », « Femme debout », « Tête de mort », « Femme accoudée », Les Louvre de Pablo Picasso (catalogue of the exhibition), musée du Louvre-Lens, Lienart éditions, Paris, 2021, p. 247, p. 287, p. 313, p. 344, p. 364
- (in French) « Picasso et le Hip-Hop », Les Musiques de Picasso (catalogue of the exhibition), Paris, Gallimard / Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris, 2020, p. 187-189
- (in French) « Picasso solaire, dans l'oeil des photographes », Picasso-Méditerranée, Musée national Picasso-Paris, In Fine éditions d'art, Paris, 2020, p. 337-342
- « Pregnant Woman: In the Work of Louise Bourgeois and Pablo Picasso », Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso, Anatomies of Desire (catalogue of the exhibition), Zürich, Hauser & Wirth, 2019, p. 90-129
- « Picasso and the Revitalization of Sculpture », Picasso: The Sculpture (catalogue of the exhibition), Rome, Galleria Borghese, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2018, p. 18-45
- « Picasso and Monumental Sculpture: Chicago, 1963-1967 », Picasso: The Sculpture (catalogue of the exhibition), Rome, Galleria Borghese, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2018, p. 70-85
- « Picasso's Sculpture Studio in the Photographs of Edward Quinn », Picasso: The Sculpture (catalogue of the exhibition), Roma, Galleria Borghese, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2018, p. 86-115
- (in French) « Picasso et les photographes : d'un objectif à l'autre », Picasso, les années Vallauris (catalogue of the exhibition), Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2018, p. 229-236
- (in French) « Vallauris, un terrain d'expérimentations pour la sculpture de Picasso », Picasso, les années Vallauris (catalogue of the exhibition), Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2018, p. 213-227
- « Rescue: The end of a year », Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy (catalogue of the exposition), London, Tate Gallery Publishing, 2018, p. 208-233
- (in French) « Marie-Thérèse Walter, muse de Boisgeloup », Boisgeloup, l'atelier normand de Picasso (catalogue of the exhibition), Rouen, Réunion des musées métropolitains de Rouen-Normandie, Artlys Editions, 2017, p. 80-91
- « PascALEjandro or the third artist », PascALEjandro, Alchemical Androgynous (catalogue of the exhibition), Paris, Actes Sud, 2017
- « I would like to deliver a family secret... », 100 Secrets of the Art World: Everything you always wanted to know about the arts but were afraid to ask, Londres, Koenig Books, 2016, p. 106-107
- (in French) « De Rodin à Picasso : la sculpture à travers l'oeil du photographe », Une pensée pour Rodin : d'hier à aujourd'hui, ses admirateurs lui rendent hommage, Paris, Place des Victoires, 2016, p. 67-69
- (in French) « Femme aux bras écartés, du carton à la tôle », Picasso.Sculptures (catalogue de l'exposition), Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Somogy, 2016, p. 270-273
- « Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter: Erotic Passion and Mystic Union », Picasso: The Artist and his Muses (catalogue de l'exposition), Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016, p. 58-79
- « Picasso Finished/Unfinished », Unfinished: Thoughts left visible (catalogue de l'exposition), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2016, p. 188-193
- (in French) « Picasso et les arts (cinéma, danse, théâtre et art vidéo) », Picasso.mania (catalogue of the exhibition), Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, pp. 258-261 ISBN 2-7118-6266-6
- (in French) « La sculpture de Picasso et après ... » Picasso.mania (catalogue of the exhibition), Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, pp. 258-261 ISBN 2-7118-6266-6
- (in French) « Réflexions et perspectives contemporaines sur la sculpture monumentale de Picasso à partir d'un document d'archives inédit », Actes du Colloque Revoir Picasso, Colloque international du 25 au 28 mars 2015, Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Grand Palais, 2015[26]
- « Pablo Picasso: a tribute to American collectors », in Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection (catalogue de l'exposition), Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2014 ISBN 1-8813-9055-1
- « Pablo Picasso's Sheet-Metal Sculptures, Vallauris 1954-1965: Design, Materials and Experimentation », Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Picasso and the Model (catalogue of the exhibition), Kunsthalle Bremen, Münich, Prestel, 2014, pp. 160–197 ISBN 3-7913-5362-4
- « The Marie-Thérèse Years: a Frenzied Dialogue for the Sleeping Muse, or the Rebirth of Picasso’s Plastic Laboratory », Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’Amour fou (catalogue of the exhibition), New York, Gagosian Gallery, Rizzoli International Publications, 2011, pp. 60–97 ISBN 0-8478-3713-0
- « The provenance of Picasso’s Collection of Erotic Japanese Prints », Picasso. Secret Images and the Japanese Erotic Prints, (catalogue of the exhibition), Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 2009, pp. 90–94 ISBN 0-5000-9354-7
- (in French) « Ambroise Vollard et les sculptures de Picasso » De Cézanne à Picasso. Chefs d’œuvre de la galerie Vollard (catalogue of the exhibition), Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2007, pp. 195–201 ISBN 2-7118-5272-5
- (in German) « Picasso Schaffen für das Theater und die Definition der Skulptur / Picasso’s Creations for the Theatre and the Definition of Sculpture », Picasso und das Theater / Picasso and the Theatre, (catalogue de l’exposition), Francfort, Kunsthalle, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, pp. 155–163 ISBN 3-7757-1872-9
- (in German) « Picasso und Cranach der Ältere : Kunst als Lebenskraft », Cranach. Gemälde aus Dresden, (catalogue of the exhibition), Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, Köln, Wienand Verlag, 2005, pp. 64–76 ISBN 3-8790-9876-X
- (in French) « Préface », Les sculptures de Picasso. Photographies de Brassaï, Paris, Assouline, 2005, pp. 1–3 ISBN 2-8432-3790-4
- « Marie-Thérèse Walter and Pablo Picasso. New Insights into a Secret Love », Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. Between Classicism and Surrealism, Munster, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, (catalogue of the exhibition), Bielefeld, Kerber Verlag, 2004, pp. 27–35 ISBN 3-9366-4659-7
- « Introduction », The Sculptures of Pablo Picasso (catalogue of the exhibition), New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2003, n. p. ISBN 1-8801-5496-X
- « The Encounter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927): Thoughts on a Historiographical Revision », Picasso et les femmes, (catalogue of the exhibition), Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, Köln, 2002, pp. 162–171 ISBN 3-8321-7268-8
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- ^ Landi, Ann (September 2005). "Lust in Translation". ART news. p. 90.
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- Le petit picador jaune (1889)
- Science and Charity (1897)
- Le Moulin de la Galette (1900)
- The Appointment (1901)
- Child with a Dove (1901)
- La Gommeuse (1901)
- Yo, Picasso (1901)
- Portrait of Jaime Sabartés (1901)
- The Blue Room (1901)
- Femme aux Bras Croisés (1901-02)
- Old Jewish Man with a Boy (1903)
- The Old Guitarist (1903)
- La Vie (1903)
- Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903)
- Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904)
- The Actor (1904-1905)
- Woman Ironing (1904)
- Girl in a Chemise (c. 1905)
- Acrobat and Young Harlequin (1905)
- Family of Saltimbanques (1905)
- Garçon à la pipe (1905)
- Girl on a Ball (1905)
- Les Noces de Pierrette (1905)
- Au Lapin Agile (1905)
- Young Girl with a Flower Basket (1905)
- Famille d'acrobates avec singe (1905)
- Boy Leading a Horse (1905–06)
- Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905–06)
- Head of a Young Woman (1906)
- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
- Woman with a Fan (1908)
- Brick Factory at Tortosa (1909)
- Woman with a Fan (1909)
- Femme et pot de moutarde (1910)
- Girl with a Mandolin (1910)
- Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910)
- Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910)
- The Accordionist (1911)
- Le pigeon aux petits pois (1911)
- La Coiffeuse (1911)
- Violon et Raisins (1912)
- Bottle, Glass, Fork (1912)
- Ma Jolie (1912)
- Arlequin (1913)
- Ma Jolie (1914)
- Three Musicians (1921)
- Reading the Letter (c. 1921)
- The Pipes of Pan (1923)
- The Three Dancers (1925)
- Woman in a Red Armchair (1929)
- Le Repos (1932)
- Girl before a Mirror (1932)
- La Lecture (1932)
- Le Rêve (1932)
- Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932)
- Nude in a Black Armchair (1932)
- Femme à la montre (1932)
- Two Girls Reading (1934)
- Jeune Fille Endormie (1935)
- Guernica (1937)
- Portrait of Dora Maar (1937)
- Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (1937)
- The Weeping Woman (1937)
- Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom (1937)
- Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (1937)
- Maya with Doll (1938)
- Woman's Head (1939)
- Dora Maar au Chat (1941)
- The Charnel House (1944–1945)
- Nature morte au poron (1948)
- Massacre in Korea (1951)
- Les Femmes d'Alger series (1955)
- Las Meninas (1957)
- The Fall of Icarus (1958)
- Bust of a Seated Woman (Jacqueline Roque) (1960)
- Jacqueline (1961)
- Femme au Chien (1962)
- Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) (1931)
- Tête de femme (Dora Maar) (1941)
- Bull's Head (1942)
- Baboon and Young (1951)
- Figure découpée (1963, 1964, 1965)
- Chicago Picasso (1967)
- Sylvette (1970)
- Vollard Suite (1930–1937)
- Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl (1933)
- Minotauromachy (1935)
- The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937)
- 347 Series (1968)
- Girl from Majorca (1905)
- Don Quixote (1955)
- Toros y toreros (1961)
- Le Taureau (1945-1946)
- Dove (1949)
- Desire Caught by the Tail (c. 1941)
- The Four Little Girls (c. 1947–48)
- Picasso and the Ballets Russes
- Parade
- The Three-Cornered Hat
- Pulcinella
- Le Train Bleu
- Mercure
- Musée Picasso (Paris)
- Musée Picasso (Antibes)
- Museu Picasso (Barcelona)
- Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga)
- Museo Casa Natal (Malaga)
- Château de Boisgeloup (Normandy)
- Olga Khokhlova (first wife)
- Jacqueline Roque (second wife)
- Maya Widmaier-Picasso (daughter)
- Claude Picasso (son)
- Paloma Picasso (daughter)
- Diana Widmaier Picasso (granddaughter)
- Marina Picasso (granddaughter)
- Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (grandson)
- José Ruiz y Blasco (father)
(France)
- Bateau-Lavoir (Montmartre Paris)
- Villa La Vigie (Juan-les-Pins, Summer 1924)
- Château de Boisgeloup (Gisors, 1930-1937)
- Château of Vauvenargues (Vauvenargues, 1958-1962)
- Villa La Californie (Cannes, 1955-1961)
- Château de Vie (Mougins, 1961-1973)
television about
- Visit to Picasso (1949)
- Guernica (1950)
- The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
- The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
- Surviving Picasso (1996)
- Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death (2001)
- Modigliani (2004)
- Genius (2018 TV series)
- Carles Casagemas
- Carl Nesjar
- Lydia Corbett
- Lump (dog)
- Fundación Picasso
- Picasso. In the heart of darkness (1939-1945) (2019-2020 exhibition)
- Picasso & Lump (2006 book)
- Picasso referendum of Basel
- Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria
- Portrait of Pablo Picasso (1915 painting)
- "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (1924 poem)
- Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) (1973 painting)
- "Pablo Picasso" (1976 song)
- The Blue Guitar (1977 etchings)
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993 play)
- Picasso (crater)