Sylvette

Sylvette is, a series of portraits of a young woman with bangs and ponytail, which Pablo Picasso painted in 1954. Sylvette David served him as a model for sculptures.

History

Picasso met Sylvette David ( born November 14, 1934 in Paris), who worked in a pottery near his studio in Vallauris, know in the spring of 1954 and decided in a short time to paint her portrait. The artist was in a crisis, his partner Françoise Gilot, had left him last year with their two children, Claude and Paloma. It created more than 50 paintings and drawings within three months. The 19 -year-old Sylvette was accompanied by her fiance Toby Jellinek, when she sat Picasso in his studio model.

After the failure of her first marriage, she was a believer, moved to England and was baptized in the name of Lydia. At the age of 45, he began to paint. Her paintings they signed simultaneously with its former name, Sylvette David and its current name Lydia Corbett. She also worked as a ceramist.

The type Sylvette is an inspiration for the actress Brigitte Bardot in the film by Roger Vadim And God Created Woman (1956 ) have been. Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso remarked in 2004 compared to the Chicago Sun- Times that the model of large-scale sculpture Chicago Picasso was also inspired by Sylvette.

In June 2008, a painting from the Sylvette series for 6.9 million Australian dollars was sold (about 4.2 million euros at the time) in Australia.

Exhibition

• Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Picasso and the model: Exhibition on the 60th anniversary of Sylvette - portraits in the Kunsthalle Bremen, February 22 bis June 22, 2014