Death of Maya Ruiz-Picasso, eldest daughter of the Spanish painter

by time news

She was the eldest daughter of the Spanish master of painting. Maya Ruiz-Picasso, the subject of several of her father’s paintings, died on Tuesday at the age of 87, lawyer Richard Malka announced, citing a statement from the family.

“Maya Ruiz-Picasso passed away peacefully this morning surrounded by her family, at the age of 87,” the statement said, without giving further details on the circumstances of her death. Born September 5, 1935, María de la Concepción, nicknamed Maya, was the first daughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter, whom they met in 1927.

An exhibition in his honor in progress

She is currently the subject of a double exhibition at the Picasso National Museum in Paris, on her relationship to her father as well as on the dation and the donations she made to the French State. “Maya with a doll” (1938), “Maya with a doll and a horse” (1938), “Maya with a sailor suit” (1938), “Maya with a boat” (1938) or “Maya with an apron” (1938 ) are thus some of the unstructured portraits, all in color, of little Maya currently presented in Paris.

She had also sold several unpublished works produced by her father, through a donation in September 2021. Among them, “The Child with a Lollipop Sitting Under a Chair”.

A symbolic painting since it probably represents Maya as a child, hidden under the furniture, as a dark omen of the world conflict to come, explained Olivier Widmaier Picasso, grandson of Picasso, present at the press conference alongside his sister Diana at the time of donation.

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