Olga Picasso at musee National Picasso

I was inspired by the exquisite drawings at the Olga Picasso exhibition at MUSÉE NATIONAL PICASSO...impossible not to make doodles in my agenda...

Do go up to the roof cafe for a look at the handsome resident sphinx by the way, though you might skip the pricy ham and cheese.

This is a don't-miss exhibit on in Paris until 3 September.

Over 350 pieces..drawings, paintings, letters, photos -a veritable gold mine of information to Picasso and his first wife, Russian Olga Khokhlova's life during 1917-1935.

They met while Picasso was creating sets and costumes for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe production, 'Parade'.

She was a star ballerina. He was smitten. They married little more than a year later. Their son, Paulo, retrieved his mother's personal cabin trunk after her death in 1955. It was full of French/Russian letters, old photos, ballet slippers, almanacs. A testament to a woman who left her family behind in war-torn Russia in 1915, not knowing she would never see them again.

Clearly a charming, sophisticated raving beauty.

Beauty and the beast?

Picasso frequently drew her elegantly dressed in furs.

The drawings particularly blew me away. What a master draftsman Picasso was. Not one line is nonessential.

Yet these are so evocative of their relationship. Their love. Her sadness missing her family all those years.

Not to mention the other women(young girls) who came into their life.

Their son, Paulo was born 3 years later, providing another adored subject to paint and draw.

Father and son.

A somewhat Matisse-like drawing but they were all in each other's pockets.

I love the mess of his studio. But what a wonderful drawing it makes! Wish I could do something even close with my messy studio.

No mess at all when Olga is included. Do NOT miss this exhibition at the Picasso Museum.

Run, don't walk if you are in Paris now or before September 3rd to 5, rue de Thorigny, 75003. You'll thank me profusely. What to wear to the exhibit? See below. Something 'arty'.

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Bon weekend.