Intimate Picasso

At la Pinacothèque de Paris, from 07 November 2003 to 28 March 2004

Jacqueline's collection

Designed and organized by Marc Restellini, this exhibition showed about ninety paintings, drawings and collages by Picasso given to Jacqueline Roque.

 

Jacqueline Roque was Picasso’s second and last legitimate wife.They were married on March 2, 1961, in Vallauris and they settled into the Villa Notre-Dame-de-Vie, close to the village of Mougins, in the midst of olive and cypress trees.
She committed suicide ten years after Picasso’s death – she had difficulty surviving the painter’s dazzling intensity – and is buried alongside him.

 

The exhibition showed paintings, and drawings given by Picasso to Jacqueline, notably a certain number of inscribed works. Although very famous, they have never been shown to the French public. Jacqueline was at the heart of the long series of the «Painter and his model» in which Picasso gave full vent to his fleshy passion.

 

For Picasso, Jacqueline, with her beautiful Greek profile, was the Mediterranean woman «par excellence». He also painted her wearing a Turkish costume, because he felt that she looked likeone of the odalisques in Delacroix’ painting «Les Femmes d’Alger».

 

Exhibition in partnership with Le Monde, Europe 1, Métrobus, France 2, Fnac

 

 

 

 

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