“Maya will play with dolls forever”
Anne Baldassari, former president of the Picasso Museum
"Maya passed away last night and it seems incredible that this magnificent woman, shaken by impulses and sparks, a true force of nature, left this world to join the fabulous procession of painting beings imagined by her father, Picasso .
Daughter of the young, tender and gentle Marie-Thérèse Walter wearing a beret or starched collar and Pablo in a fisherman's knit, Maya will play with dolls forever (
Maya à la doll
, 1938, National Picasso Museum, Donation Picasso, 1973).
Alongside Paulo (son of Picasso and Olga Koklova, born in 1921) disguised as a moon pierrot, Claude and Paloma cutting paper birds (children of Picasso and Françoise Gilot born in 1947 and 1949 respectively), she will now inhabit this world enchanted with childhood.
The very one that she illuminated with her presence as a young girl on fire in the photographs of the "little world of Pablo Picasso" published by David Douglas Duncan in 1959 which revealed the rituals...
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