Maya Ruiz-Picasso, daughter of Pablo

María de la Concepción, nicknamed Maya, was born on September 5, 1935. She was Pablo Picasso's first daughter, and the fruit of his passionate love for Marie-Thérèse Walter, whom he had met in 1927. The arrival of this child is a disruption in the life of Picasso. The exhibition "Maya Ruiz-Picasso, daughter of Pablo" proposes to reread part of the artist's production through the prism of this filial relationship. An exceptional group of painted portraits dedicated to the little girl, as well as an important selection of sculptures, graphic works, photographs and archival documents tell this intimate part of Picasso's family history. It highlights the complicity between father and daughter, and underlines the way in which Maya's presence nourished and amplified the artist's fascination with childhood.
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