Diana Widmaier Picasso
Diana Widmaier Picasso is a French art historian specialized in modern art, currently living in Paris.
Life
Diana Widmaier Picasso is the daughter of Maya Widmaier-Picasso, daughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. After a Master degree in private Law, and a Master degree in Art History —her thesis was about the art market in France in the seventeenth century—she decided to specialize in old master drawings. She worked on several exhibitions in museums, and later became an expert in old master drawings at Sotheby’s in London and Paris for three years.She is the co-founder with Roy Sebag and Chief Artistic Officer of a 24 karat jewelry company called Menē launched in 2017.
Diana Widmaier Picasso is involved in art organizations: Trustee MoMA PS1, New York, Trustee Kunst-Werke, Berlin, International Council of MoMA, New York, Tate International Council, London, Visiting Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 19th, 20th and 21st century Departments, Member of Performing Art committee of the Whitney Museum, New York.
She is also involved in non-profit organizations: Girls Inc., Elevate New York, Chez Bushwick, Education Through Music.
She has a daughter born in April 2017.
DWP Editions - Catalogue raisonné
In 2003, Diana Widmaier Picasso created a research company called DWP Editions and started gathering information on her grandfather’s works. She is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures with a team of researchers. This catalogue will present over 2000 three-dimensional works including materials like plaster, bronze, wood, terra-cotta, cardboard and paper.Diana Widmaier Picasso is also in charge of the art collection and the archival materials belonging to Maya Ruiz-Picasso.
Curatorial works
- « Picasso: La Scultura », Roma, Galleria Borghese, October 9, 2018 - February 3, 2019
- « Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter », Paris, Gagosian Gallery, October 18 - February 24, 2017
- « Desire », Miami, Moore Building, Art Basel Miami Beach, November 30 - December 4, 2016
- « Picasso's Picassos: A Selection from the Collection of Maya Ruiz-Picasso », New York, Gagosian Gallery, November 10, 2016 - February 18, 2017
- « Picasso.mania », Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 7, 2015 - February 29, 2016
- « Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'Amour Fou », New York, Gagosian Gallery, April 14 - July 15, 2011
Books
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter, New York, Gagosian, 2019
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Picasso: The Impossible Collection, New York, Assouline, 2019
- Diana Widmaier Picasso, Art Can Only Be Erotic, Munich, Prestel, 2005.
Essays
- « Pregnant Woman: In the Work of Louise Bourgeois and Pablo Picasso », Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso, Anatomies of Desire, Zürich, Hauser & Wirth, 2019, p. 90-129
- « Picasso and the Revitalization of Sculpture », Picasso: The Sculpture, Rome, Galleria Borghese, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2018, p. 18-45
- « Picasso and Monumental Sculpture: Chicago, 1963-1967 », Picasso: The Sculpture, Rome, Galleria Borghese, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2018, p. 70-85
- « Picasso's Sculpture Studio in the Photographs of Edward Quinn », Picasso: The Sculpture, Roma, Galleria Borghese, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2018, p. 86-115
- « Picasso et les photographes : d'un objectif à l'autre », Picasso, les années Vallauris, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2018, p. 229-236
- « Vallauris, un terrain d'expérimentations pour la sculpture de Picasso », Picasso, les années Vallauris, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2018, p. 213-227
- « Rescue: The end of a year », Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy, London, Tate Gallery Publishing, 2018, p. 208-233
- « Marie-Thérèse Walter, muse de Boisgeloup », Boisgeloup, l'atelier normand de Picasso, Rouen, Réunion des musées métropolitains de Rouen-Normandie, Artlys Editions, 2017, p. 80-91
- « PascALEjandro or the third artist », PascALEjandro, Alchemical Androgynous, Paris, Actes Sud, 2017
- « I would like to deliver a family secret... », 100 Secrets of the Art World: Everything you always wanted to know about the arts but were afraid to ask, Londres, Koenig Books, 2016, p. 106-107
- « De Rodin à Picasso : la sculpture à travers l'oeil du photographe », Une pensée pour Rodin : d'hier à aujourd'hui, ses admirateurs lui rendent hommage, Paris, Place des Victoires, 2016, p. 67-69
- « Femme aux bras écartés, du carton à la tôle », Picasso.Sculptures, Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Somogy, 2016, p. 270-273
- « Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter: Erotic Passion and Mystic Union », Picasso: The Artist and his Muses, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016, p. 58-79
- « Picasso Finished/Unfinished », Unfinished: Thoughts left visible, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2016, p. 188-193
- « Picasso et les arts », Picasso.mania, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, pp. 258-261
- « La sculpture de Picasso et après... » Picasso.mania, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, pp. 258-261
- « Réflexions et perspectives contemporaines sur la sculpture monumentale de Picasso à partir d'un document d'archives inédit », Actes du Colloque Revoir Picasso, Colloque international du 25 au 28 mars 2015, Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Grand Palais, 2015
- « Pablo Picasso: a tribute to American collectors », in Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection, Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2014
- « Pablo Picasso's Sheet-Metal Sculptures, Vallauris 1954-1965: Design, Materials and Experimentation », Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Picasso and the Model, Kunsthalle Bremen, Münich, Prestel, 2014, pp. 160–197
- « 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, New York, Gagosian Gallery, Rizzoli International Publications, 2011, pp. 60–97
- « The provenance of Picasso’s Collection of Erotic Japanese Prints », Picasso. Secret Images and the Japanese Erotic Prints,, Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 2009, pp. 90–94
- « Ambroise Vollard et les sculptures de Picasso » De Cézanne à Picasso. Chefs d’œuvre de la galerie Vollard, Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2007, pp. 195–201
- « 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,, Francfort, Kunsthalle, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, pp. 155–163
- « Picasso und Cranach der Ältere : Kunst als Lebenskraft », Cranach. Gemälde aus Dresden,, Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, Köln, Wienand Verlag, 2005, pp. 64–76
- « Préface », Les sculptures de Picasso. Photographies de Brassaï, Paris, Assouline, 2005, pp. 1–3
- « 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,, Bielefeld, Kerber Verlag, 2004, pp. 27–35
- « Introduction », The Sculptures of Pablo Picasso, New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2003, n. p.
- « The Encounter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter : Thoughts on a Historiographical Revision », Picasso et les femmes,, Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, Köln, 2002, pp. 162–171