Pablo picasso mini biography of sylvester

Sylvette is the title of the portrait of a young woman with the ponytail painted by Pablo Picasso.

The model for the painting was (Lydia) Sylvette David, also known by her married name Lydia Corbett, a French woman who worked in a pottery studio near Picasso's studio in Vallauris, in the summer of 1953. Picasso created 40 works inspired by her.

Picasso Art Print | Portrait of Sylvester David, | Mid-Century Modern Style Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October - 8 April ) was a Spanish painter.

Picasso was born on 25 October in Málaga, Spain.

Sylvester was born in London, the son of a Russian-Jewish antiques dealer, and went to University College School, which he left at the age of

At the Tate Picasso's late paintings seem almost to be different paintings from those they seemed to be at Beaubourg.

One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-.

As the inspiration for some of Picasso's most famous paintings, Lydia Corbett's was the face that launched a thousand French ponytails.

There was a time when Sylvette David was at the center of a media storm and breaking hearts throughout Europe.

But, at just 19, she was so timid that she didn't enjoy her power. With her grave beauty and tumbling blonde hair tied in a coquettish ponytail, she caught the eye of Pablo Picasso in 1954 and, for three months, became his muse: the subject of over 40 of his paintings, drawings and sculptures.

To Sylvette, though, her looks were a matter of deep