Claude Picasso

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Claude Ruiz-Picasso (born May 15, 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris ) is a French-Spanish photographer , filmmaker , graphic artist and estate administrator for the family members of Pablo Picasso .

Life

Claude Picasso is the son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot's extramarital relationship . His sister is Paloma Picasso , born in 1949. Gilot separated from Picasso in September 1953 when Claude was six and married the painter Luc Simon in 1955, from whom she divorced in 1962. Due to the publication of Gilot's autobiography Vivre avec Picasso in 1964, the artist felt betrayed and broke off contact with Gilot, Claude and Paloma. At the end of the 1960s, Gilot achieved legal recognition of the surname Ruiz-Picasso for her children.

Claude Picasso studied film at the Actors Studio and was assistant to the photographer Richard Avedon . In 1968 he worked in New York for Condé Nast , the editor of Vogue, among others . In 1969 he met Jonas Salk , the inventor of the polio vaccine , whom his mother Françoise Gilot married in 1970.

On April 8, 1973, Pablo Picasso died in his home in Mougins . He left no will. His widow, Picasso's second wife Jacqueline Roque , prevented Claude and Paloma and other family members from attending the funeral service. Claude Picasso was two years after Picasso's death by law as executor used for the family. In 1995 he founded the Picasso Administration in New York , which is based in Paris and is responsible for the authentication of works ascribed to Picasso and for the granting of rights to publications. In 2012, Picasso Authentification was founded under his leadership for authentication . Four of the five surviving heirs are named on the website, the eldest daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso (* 1935) from the connection between the artist and Marie-Thérèse Walter , who had also performed authentications for years and whose cooperation is not desired , is missing . Art dealers had to obtain expertise from both Claude Picasso and Maya Widmaier-Picasso beforehand.

He received protests from his father's friend, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and parts of the family, when he sold the logo and the protected name Picasso for the Citroën Xsara Picasso automobile to Citroën , because Pablo Picasso had been a communist and the Commercializing his name would damage his memory.

In May 2014, Claude Picasso was mentioned in the media as a critic of the long postponed reopening of the Musée Picasso in Paris , where he is a board member. The collection of the museum, which opened in 1985, came about after the artist's death instead of inheritance tax payments from the family. The previous director Anne Baldassari was dismissed against his resistance. The reopening took place on October 25, 2014.

In March 2015, the Le Guennec couple were brought to trial in Grasse . The court sentenced the two to two years probation for stolen goods. An undiscovered art treasure, which was allegedly stored in the couple's garage for 40 years, attracted international attention as the "Picasso Fund" discovered by the authorities in France in 2010 from Picasso's former electrician, Pierre Le Guennec, and his wife. The couple claimed that the artist received the 271 paintings, watercolors and drawings by the artist between 1900 and 1932 with an estimated value of around 100 million euros as wages for handicrafts. The legal battle had started when Le Guennec wanted to have the authenticity of Claude Picasso's works certified in 2010. The family's lawyers then filed charges of receiving stolen goods. The works are to be handed over to Claude Picasso as the administrator of the family. The couple appealed , but this was rejected in December 2016.

Awards

Claude Picasso was awarded the French Order of Merit Légion d'honneur in 2011 for his work as a photographer, filmmaker and administrator of the artistic legacy of his father Pablo Picasso.

literature

  • Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake : Vivre avec Picasso . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1964
    • German: Life with Picasso . From the American by Anne-Ruth Strauss. Diogenes, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-257-21584-3
  • Picasso: the hug , exhibition, supervised by Claude Picasso and Sylvie Vautier. German-Spanish catalog for the exhibition in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin from October 3 to December 10, 2000. SMPK, Berlin 2000
  • Ulrich Mack : Françoise Gilot - a photographic portrait. Benteli Verlag, Wabern / Bern 2006, ISBN 3-7165-1439-X (Photographs by Ulrich Mack. With an introduction by Erika Billeter and texts by Françoise Gilot, Paloma Picasso and Claude Ruiz-Picasso. Catalog for the exhibition Françoise Gilot and Ulrich Mack : Meeting in 2006: Graphics Museum Pablo Picasso Münster, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of Françoise Gilot. www.francoisegilot.com, accessed May 27, 2014 .
  2. ^ IngeborgRuthe / Carolin Meister: Picasso's son. Berliner Zeitung online, accessed on May 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Picasso Administration
  4. ↑ Picasso Authentification
  5. ↑ George Stolz: Authenticating Picasso , artnews.com, February 1, 2013, accessed June 7, 2014
  6. ^ Prostituting Picasso , theguardian.com, March 20, 1999, accessed May 29, 2014
  7. ^ Anne Rossiter: Anne Baldassari, President of the Musée Picasso, dismissed over renovation , apollo-magazine.com, May 14, 2014, accessed February 14, 2016
  8. ↑ Sabine Glaubitz: Picasso's son calls it Sabotage , Mittelbayerische.de, May 8, 2014, accessed on May 31, 2014
  9. ↑ Picassos worth 100 million euros: couple sentenced to suspended sentence , spiegel.de, March 20, 2015, accessed on March 21, 2015
  10. ↑ Selection of images
  11. ↑ Picasso's former electrician convicted of stolen goods , diepresse.com, December 16, 2016, accessed December 21, 2016
  12. ^ Remise de décorations à Claude Ruiz-Picasso, Myung-Whun Chung, Ismaïl Serageldin, et Evgueni Kissin , address by the Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand , June 29, 2011
  13. ↑ Matisse - Picasso (2002) on IMDb
personal data
SURNAME Picasso, Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruiz-Picasso, Claude; Gilot, Claude (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hispanic-French photographer, filmmaker and estate administrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris