Diana Widmaier Picasso

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Diana Widmaier Picasso
File:Diana Widmaier Picasso.jpg
Born (1974-03-12)March 12, 1974
Marseille, France
Nationality French
Occupation Art historian, Art curator

Diana Widmaier Picasso (born March 12, 1974) is a French art historian specialized in modern art currently based in New York[1]

Life

Diana Widmaier Picasso is the daughter of Maya Picasso, granddaughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter.[2][3] She studied the art market in France in the seventeenth century at the Sorbonne and later decided to specialize in old master drawings.[4] She worked as an expert at Sotheby’s in London and Paris from 1997 to 2000.

Catalogue Raisonné

In 2003, Diana Widmaier Picasso created a research company called DWP Editions and started gathering information on her grandfather’s works.[5][6] She is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures with a team of researchers.[7] This catalogue will present over 2000 three-dimensional works including materials like plaster, bronze, wood, terra-cotta, carboard and paper.[8]

Curatorial works

  • « Picasso.mania », Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 7, 2015 - February 29, 2016[9][10]
  • « Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'Amour Fou », New York, Gagosian Gallery, April 14 - July 15, 2011[11][12][13]

Books

Art Can Only Be Erotic ISBN 3-7913-3160-4.[14]

Articles

  • (French) « Picasso et les arts (cinéma, danse, théâtre et art vidéo) », Picasso.mania (catalogue of the exhibition), Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, pp. 258-261 ISBN 2-7118-6266-6
  • (French) « La sculpture de Picasso et après ... » Picasso.mania (catalogue of the exhibition), Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, pp. 258-261 ISBN 2-7118-6266-6
  • « Pablo Picasso: a tribute to American collectors », in Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection (catalogue de l'exposition), Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2014 ISBN 1-8813-9055-1
  • « Pablo Picasso's Sheet-Metal Sculptures, Vallauris 1954-1965: Design, Materials and Experimentation », Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Picasso and the Model (catalogue of the exhibition), Kunsthalle Bremen, Münich, Prestel, 2014, pp. 160–197 ISBN 3-7913-5362-4
  • « The Marie-Thérèse Years: a Frenzied Dialogue for the Sleeping Muse, or the Rebirth of Picasso’s Plastic Laboratory », Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’Amour fou (catalogue of the exhibition), New York, Gagosian Gallery, Rizzoli International Publications, 2011, pp. 60–97 ISBN 0-8478-3713-0
  • « The provenance of Picasso’s Collection of Erotic Japanese Prints », Picasso. Secret Images and the Japanese Erotic Prints, (catalogue of the exhibition), Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 2009, pp. 90–94 ISBN 0-5000-9354-7
  • (French) « Ambroise Vollard et les sculptures de Picasso » De Cézanne à Picasso. Chefs d’œuvre de la galerie Vollard (catalogue of the exhibition), Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2007, pp. 195–201 ISBN 2-7118-5272-5
  • (German) « Picasso Schaffen für das Theater und die Definition der Skulptur / Picasso’s Creations for the Theatre and the Definition of Sculpture », Picasso und das Theater / Picasso and the Theatre, (catalogue de l’exposition), Francfort, Kunsthalle, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, pp. 155–163 ISBN 3-7757-1872-9
  • (German) « Picasso und Cranach der Ältere : Kunst als Lebenskraft », Cranach. Gemälde aus Dresden, (catalogue of the exhibition), Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, Köln, Wienand Verlag, 2005, pp. 64–76 ISBN 3-8790-9876-X
  • « Préface », Les sculptures de Picasso. Photographies de Brassaï, Paris, Assouline, 2005, pp. 1–3 ISBN 2-8432-3790-4
  • « Marie-Thérèse Walter and Pablo Picasso. New Insights into a Secret Love », Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. Between Classicism and Surrealism, Munster, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, (catalogue of the exhibition), Bielefeld, Kerber Verlag, 2004, pp. 27–35 ISBN 3-9366-4659-7
  • « Introduction », The Sculptures of Pablo Picasso (catalogue of the exhibition), New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2003, n. p. ISBN 1-8801-5496-X
  • « The Encounter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927): Thoughts on a Historiographical Revision », Picasso et les femmes, (catalogue of the exhibition), Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, Köln, 2002, pp. 162–171 ISBN 3-8321-7268-8

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