Sylvette

Sylvette is the title of a portrait painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring a young woman with a pony tail. The model for the painting, Lydia Sylvette David, also known by her married name Lydia Corbett, was a French woman who, during the summer of 1953, worked in a pottery studio near Picasso's studio in Vallauris. Finding her appearance appealing, Picasso created 40 works inspired by her. Sylvette's portrait from 2 May 1954 is one of the last of a long series. Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004 that Sylvette was also the subject of the monumental Chicago Picasso, which had been a matter of curiosity since it was unveiled. She was said to have been an inspiration for actress Brigitte Bardot and the Roger Vadim film And God Created Woman. In 1998 Barron's published Picasso and the Girl With a Ponytail by Laurence Anholt—a children's book in which a shy teenager named Sylvette meets Picasso in Vallauris and becomes his model.

Lydia is now an artist in her own right. Galleries exhibiting her work include Fosse Gallery Fine Art, with one exhibition being aptly named 'The Girl With the Ponytail'.

External links

• About Lydia Corbett aka Sylvette
• Lydia Corbett aka Sylvette's, website
• Lydia Corbett - Fosse Gallery Fine Art

Pablo Picasso Periods Blue (1901–1904) Rose (1904–1906) African (1907–1909) Cubism (1910–1919) Lists of works 1889–1900 1901–1910 1911–1920 1921–1930 1931–1940 1941–1950 1951–1960 1961–1970 1971–1973 Major works Child with a Dove (1901) The Blue Room (1901) Femme aux Bras Croisés (1902) The Old Guitarist (1903) La Vie (1903) Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903) Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904) The Actor (1904) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Garçon à la pipe (1905) Les Noces de Pierrette (1905) Boy Leading a Horse (1905-06) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Le pigeon aux petits pois (1911) Bottle, Glass, Fork (1912) Three Musicians (1921) Reading the Letter (c.1921) The Three Dancers (1925) Vollard Suite (1930-37) La Lecture (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) Nude in a Black Armchair (1932) Jeune Fille Endormie (1935) Guernica (1937) The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937) Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937) Maya with Doll (1938) Dora Maar au Chat (1941) Bull's Head (1942) The Charnel House (c.1944-48) Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (1950s) Baboon and Young (1951) Massacre in Korea (1951) Sylvette (1954) Les Femmes d'Alger series (1955) Don Quixote (1955) Las Meninas (1957) Jacqueline (1961) Chicago Picasso (1967) Partners Fernande Olivier (1904 to 1911) Eva Gouel (1912 to her death in 1915) Olga Khokhlova (married 1918, to her death in 1955, mother of Paulo) Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927 to 1935, mother of Maya) Dora Maar (1936 to 1944) Françoise Gilot (1944 to 1953, mother of Claude and Paloma) Geneviève Laporte (during the 1950s) Jacqueline Roque (married 1961 to Picasso's death 1973) Family Paloma Picasso Claude Picasso José Ruiz y Blasco Colleagues and friends Carlos Casagemas Marc Chagall Georges Braque Julio González Max Jacob Henri Matisse Jaime Sabartés Patrons and biographers Gertrude Stein Etta and Claribel Cone Douglas Cooper John Richardson Daniel Kahnweiler Paul Rosenberg Ambroise Vollard Patrick O'Brian Museums Musée Picasso (Antibes) Museu Picasso (Barcelona) Musée Picasso (Paris) Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga) Museo Casa Natal (Malaga) Films Van Renoir tot Picasso (1948) Visit to Picasso (1949) Guernica (1950) Picasso (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) The Adventures of Picasso (1978) Surviving Picasso (1996) Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death (2001) Plays by Picasso Desire Caught by the Tail c. (1941) The Four Little Girls c. (1947-1948) Poetry by Picasso Picasso's poetry See also Fundación Picasso Blanquita Suárez Picasso and the Ballets Russes Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria Wikiquote Wiktionary