Maya Widmaier-Picasso

María de la Concepción "Maya" Widmaier-Picasso (Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 1935) is the daughter of Spanish painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. She has devoted part of her life to the study and preservation of the legacy of her father.[1][2]

Maya is notably represented in the series of Picasso paintings Maya à la poupée.

She is the second of her father's four children. She has one older half-brother, Paulo (1921-1975) (the father of Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and Marina Picasso), from her father's marriage to ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova and two younger half-siblings, Claude (born in 1947) and Paloma (born in 1949), from her father's relationship with painter Françoise Gilot.

She was married to Pierre Widmaier and has had three children: Olivier, Richard, and Diana. Diana Widmaier Picasso is an art historian specialized in the work of her grandfather Pablo Picasso.

In 2017, Gagosian Gallery presented in Paris the exhibition Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter, curated by Diana Widmaier Picasso. It was the first exhibition devoted to Picasso's portraits of his eldest daughter.[3]

References
  1. "La hija de Picasso obtendrá la nacionalidad española". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. "Family tree of María de la Concepción PICASSO". Geneanet. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  3. AnOther (2017-10-20). "The Show Exploring Picasso's Relationship with His Daughter". AnOther. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
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