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Dream Lover.
Byline: LESLIE CAMHI editor: Valerie Steiker
An exuberant show celebrates Picasso's young mistress and her bountiful charms.
In most of the paintings she dreams, her sensual reveries filtered through the intellectual complexities of her artist lover. Her name was Marie-Therese Walter; she was seventeen in 1927, when a man with "a nice smile," as she recalled some five decades later, approached her outside the Parisian department store where she'd gone to buy a collar for a blouse, saying he was sure they'd "do great things together."
The name Picasso meant nothing to her, so the artist (then 45, married to the former ballerina Olga Khokhlova, and a father) showed her a catalog of his work by way of introduction. She kept the appointment they made to meet at his studio a few days later, and art was the richer for it. Opening this month at New York's Acquavella Galleries, "Picasso's Marie-Therese," a loan exhibition of major works including paintings, drawings, and a rare sculpture, reveals the creative ferment, artistic ambition, and erotic ardor that informed ...
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