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Marie-Thérèse Walter

1909 - 1977

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Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso, with whom she had a daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Walter is known as Picasso's "golden muse." She inspired numerous artworks and sculptures that he created of her during their relationship, which began when she was 17 years old and Picasso was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. It ended after Picasso moved on to his next relationship with artist Dora Maar. Walter died from an apparent suicide at the age of 68 in 1977. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie-Thérèse Walter is the 604th most popular companion (down from 544th in 2019), the 2,816th most popular biography from France (down from 2,423rd in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Companion.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Marie-Thérèse Walter ranks 604 out of 784. Before her are Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, Iput, Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Laodice I, Muniadona of Castile, and Adela of Flanders. After her are Mécia Lopes de Haro, Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Ingeborg of Kiev, Nefertari, and Agnes of Brandenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Marie-Thérèse Walter ranks 132. Before her are Gordon Bunshaft, Gerhard Gentzen, Morris Swadesh, André Cayatte, Dean Rusk, and Milena Pavlović-Barili. After her are Hendrik Casimir, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ben Webster, Sylvère Maes, Guy de Rothschild, and Jerzy Andrzejewski. Among people deceased in 1977, Marie-Thérèse Walter ranks 102. Before her are James M. Cain, Pierre Clastres, Miloš Crnjanski, Ba Maw, Pan Yuliang, and Ronnie Van Zant. After her are Isaac Boleslavsky, Kinuyo Tanaka, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Jim Thompson, Sergei Kruglov, and Richard Carlson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie-Thérèse Walter ranks 2,816 out of 6,770. Before her are Emmanuel Frémiet (1824), Claude Balbastre (1724), Bernard de Montfaucon (1655), Cécile Aubry (1928), Maurice Joly (1829), and Jacques Ozanam (1640). After her are Georges Wilson (1921), Richard Simon (1638), Daniel Buren (1938), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Lionel Terray (1921), and Françoise Dolto (1908).

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Among COMPANIONS In France

Among companions born in France, Marie-Thérèse Walter ranks 58. Before her are Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508), Peter I of Courtenay (1126), Bernadette Chirac (1933), Maria of Navarre (1326), Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787), and Marie Thérèse de Bourbon (1666). After her are Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons (1606), Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (890), Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse (1639), Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892), and Rosa Vercellana (1833).

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