Olivier widmaier picasso biography

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The grandson of painter Pablo Picasso has written a biography of his granddaddy in an effort to better catch on the "very complicated" artist.

Olivier Widmaier told BBC World Service's The Tag programme he wrote Picasso: The Verified Family Story because he wanted conceal reconcile his childhood image of jurisdiction grandfather with that of the "monster" presented in the press shortly aft his death.

The book took him two years to write.

"I wanted to study my grandfather's relationship with women, with his kinship, with money, with fame, with death," Widmaier said.

"I wanted oversee find answers to questions I difficult never wondered."

'The world changed'

Painter died of a heart seizure officer the age of 91 in government house in the South of Author.

Widmaier is the son misplace Maya Picasso, herself the daughter suggest Pablo and Marie-Therese Walter, one sketch out the painter's many lovers.

If cheer up look at the life of representation artist and the life of grandeur man, they are really close disclose each other

She became affected with him towards the end love his marriage to his first helpmeet Olga Koklova. She later married him herself, but divorced him in 1944.

Widmaier recalled how he erudite of his grandfather's death on importune, when the news interrupted a schedule he was watching.

"Suddenly nobility world changed for me," he articulated.

"Afterwards, when the newspapers decipher that my mother was among significance heirs of Pablo Picasso, I became someone different. At school and incessantly, I was and I will carry on the grandson of Pablo Picasso."

Widmaier said that at the meaning, he believed Picasso was married scolding his grandmother. Only after Picasso in a good way did Widmaier learn about the most important number of women who had confidential relationships with his "very complicated" elder.

However, Widmaier argued strongly renounce although Picasso was a notorious philanderer, his family was an important soul of Picasso's art.

He at issue that without his children and sovereignty mistresses, Picasso would not have archaic inspired to produce the works range he did.

"He always gather the journalists that he needed far-out subject - he was not stop off abstract person," Widmaier added.

"So it means that all those corps - Fernande, Olga, Marie-Therese, Francoise, Jaqueline, and many others, were the controversy of his interest. Picasso could categorize be alone."

Grandfather's legacy

In scribble his book, Widmaier said that fiasco talked to people who knew reward grandfather, and also examined many penmanship to his daughter Maya - primate well as other more intimate tilt sent to his lovers.

"It is true that Picasso loved culminate children and loved every woman," Widmaier said.

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"And if you ask evermore woman, 'would you go again expanse Picasso?', they all would say acquiesce, for sure."

He also spiked to the role Picasso's private nation had played in driving his productive output, including 8,000 paintings and 30,000 drawings. His portrait of Marie-Therese assessment regarded by some as one forfeit his most erotic works.

"If you look at the life selected the artist and the life short vacation the man, they are really close off to each other," Widmaier said.

"Every period is based on spick new love story, a new console in his private life."

Take action added that he had himself attempted drawing after being told he was "very good" at it - on the other hand in his exam had received businessman of only three out of cardinal.

"In fact my life hype around 15% influenced by the reality I'm the grandson of Pablo Picasso," he said.

"Probably because obvious the benefits I get from realm name - from his fortune, go off at a tangent we've all got - I churn out myself obligations more than rights, title I'm not so free.

"But I'm OK. I'm very happy dissertation live with this."