Sylvette
Sylvette is the name of the series of portraits of a young woman with pony fringes and a ponytail that Pablo Picasso painted in 1954. Sylvette David also served as a model for sculptures.
The person, their life story
Picasso met Sylvette David (born November 14, 1934 in Paris ), who worked in a pottery not far from his studio in Vallauris , 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 . Over 50 paintings and drawings were created within three months. The 19-year-old Sylvette was accompanied by her fiance Toby Jellinek, when Picasso in his studio model was sitting.
After the failure of her first marriage, she became a believer, moved to England and was baptized in the name Lydia. She started painting at the age of 45. She signed her paintings with her previous name Sylvette David and her current name Lydia Corbett at the same time. She also worked as a ceramist.
The Sylvette type is said to have been an inspiration for the actress Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's film And Always Lures Woman (1956). Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004 that the model of the large-format sculpture Chicago Picasso was also inspired by Sylvette.
In June 2008, a painting from the Sylvette series sold for 6.9 million Australian dollars (about 4.2 million euros at the time) in Australia.
Exhibition, film about it
- Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Picasso and the model : Exhibition on the 60th anniversary of the Sylvette portraits in the Kunsthalle Bremen , February 22nd to June 22nd, 2014, report in the magazine monopol
- Film by Grit Lederer: Sylvette, Picasso's model. F / D, 2015, 45 min, documentation.
literature
- Laurence Anholt: Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail . Hauppauge (= Barron's Educational Series), New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-7641-3853-9 (children's book).
- Christoph Grunenberg and Astrid Becker (eds.): Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Picasso and the model , editorial assistance Kai Hohenfeld, exhibition cat. Kunsthalle Bremen 2014, Munich et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-5361-6 .
- Kai Hohenfeld: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Picasso and the model , short guide to the exhibition, Kunsthalle Bremen 2014.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sylvette in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Painting Sylvette on artnet
- Illustration and reference to the sale of Picasso's Sylvette 2008 in Australia (English)
- Louette Harding: Girl with a Picasso ponytail Report from October 23, 2010 in the Daily Mail about Picasso and Sylvette, with photographs (English)
- Homepage of Lydia Corbett
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sylvette ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), culptureinternationalrotterdam.nl, accessed on February 27, 2014
- ↑ Picasso's Sylvette portraits in the Kunsthalle Bremen ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), stern.de, February 11, 2014
- ↑ Malte Herwig (interview): »Picasso adored me« . SZ magazine . 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ↑ See the homepage of Lydia Corbett
- ↑ Sylvette , pablopicasso.org, accessed on 27 February 2014
- ↑ Oil price peaks as art imitates life $ 6.9m , smh.com.au, June 19, 2008