Eva Gouel
Eva Gouel , née Marcelle Humbert (* 1885 ; † December 14, 1915 ), was the second companion of Pablo Picasso at the beginning of his cubist synthetic period.
meaning
At the end of 1911 Picasso met Marcelle Humbert in Paris . In May 1912, Picasso and his first partner, Fernande Olivier, separated . On May 18, he traveled with Marcelle Humbert, whom he had taken from his friend, the painter Louis Marcoussis , via Avignon to Céret in the Pyrenees . But since Fernande was also expected, he drove back to Avignon with Marcelle on June 21 and rented the villa "Les Clochettes" in Sorgues- sur-l ' Ouvèze , a small town north of Avignon. At the end of July-beginning of August 1912, Picasso's friend and colleague Braque and his wife Marcelle also arrived in Sorgues, who rented a house in the neighborhood. Presumably because both women had the first name Marcelle , Picasso called Marcelle Humbert from then on Eva . On September 23, Picasso and Eva Gouel left Avignon and, having arrived in Paris, set up an apartment at 242 Boulevard de Raspail.
In mid-December the couple traveled to Ceret and Barcelona for a month and also spent spring and August 1913 together in Ceret; they went on trips to Figueres and Girona . From June 17 to November 17, 1914, Eva and Picasso lived in Avignon, where they rented a “Spanish-looking” house at 14 rue Saint Bernard.
| Ma Jolie |
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| Pablo Picasso , 1911/12 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 100 × 64.5 cm |
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Museum of Modern Art , New York
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Picasso did not depict Eva directly in his Cubist pictures, but in word fragments. "His objects are his love affairs, he has never painted an object to which he was not in an emotional relationship." Eva appears in his pictures in fragments like J'aime Eva , Jolie Eva or Ma Jolie , the gallery owner reports Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler in his book Aesthetic Considerations from 1968.
At the beginning of 1915 Eva Gouel fell ill with tuberculosis and was operated on on February 15th. But her health did not improve significantly. She died on December 14th in Auteuil Hospital . Picasso was deeply affected by her death, and it plunged him into depression. A small group of friends, including Max Jacob and Juan Gris , accompanied Picasso to the cemetery. Picasso soon created the pencil drawings Eva morte and Eva sur son lit de mort . Picasso found solace in Gaby Depeyre , who lived near his studio in Montmartre. The young woman did not return Picasso's love, however, and married the American artist Herbert Lespinasse the following year.
literature
- Gertraude Clemenz-Kirsch: The women of Picasso. edition ebersbach, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86915-062-8
- Ingrid Mössinger, Kerstin Dechsel, Beate Ritter: Picasso et les femmes - Picasso and women . Dumont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-8321-7529-0
- Wilfried Wiegand : Picasso . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973, ISBN 3-499-50205-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Picasso, la méditation du cannibale par Frédéric Gaussen, Le Monde du 27 June 2001.
- ^ Roland Penrose: Picasso, His Life and Work , p. 181, 3rd edition, University of California Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-520-04207-0
- ^ Judith Cousins, Comparative Biographical Chronology of Picasso and Braque in: Picasso and Braque, Prestel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7913-1046-1
- ^ Eva in a letter to Gertrude Stein dated June 23, 1914
- ↑ Wilfried Wiegand: Picasso , p. 79
- ↑ Billy Klüver and others: A day with Picasso: August 12, 1916, Cantz Edition, 1993, ISBN 978-3-89322-527-9
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| SURNAME | Gouel, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Humbert, Marcelle (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Picasso's French partner (1912–1915) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1885 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1915 |