A guard sitting at the Picasso museum sits next to the Picasso sculpture of his young mistress Marie-Therese Walter. This version is in bronze. The lovely body of Marie-Thérèse is possible filled with sexual symbols: the prominent nose, the extension of the forehead, almond-shaped gaze, and busty chest. The face of Marie-Thérèse might also recall the bulges that make up an African mask of the goddess Nimba that Picasso held in his studio. Picasso’s liaison (affair) with Marie- Thérèse was said to be a very secret one. There were only a handful of his closest friends who knew about her existence. At the time, he was married to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, whom he then desperately (and unsuccessfully at the time ) tried to divorce. I enjoyed seeing this new exhibition at the Picasso museum that will be open until the end of this year. It was created around the "new masterpieces from his daughter Maya Ruiz-Picasso" There are nine works (I think) six paintings and three sculptures as these new works join the collection. . . . #paris #picassomuseumparis #parisjetaime #parislife #parisart #parismonamour #parismaville #parislove #pariscity #villedeparis #iloveparis #parisfind (at Musée Picasso Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce3eelYLzDN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=