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Lydia Corbett
Mixed Media by Lydia Corbett/Sylvette David (Picasso’s Muse)
20th Century

Name: Mixed Media by Lydia Corbett/Sylvette David (Picasso’s Muse)
Brand: Lydia Corbett
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

$2,696.29List Price

About the Item

Still life ink drawing with watercolour wash on paper by Lydia Corbett/Sylvette David (B. 1934). The painting is set in a hand decorated mount and frame with sponged paintwork. Signed Sylvette David, lower left and Lydia Corbett, lower right. Painting measurements – Height 40cm x Width 50cm. Frame measurements – Heights 75cm x Width 85cm x Depth 4cm. Lydia Corbett was born Sylvette David, she was one of Pablo Picasso’s muses and he simply called her ‘Sylvette’. Having caught his eye in the French town of Vallauris at the age of nineteen, ‘the girl with the ponytail’ would sit for Picasso over the course of several months between 1953 and 1954. As his muse and model, she is the inspiration behind, and subject of, over forty iconic portrait sketches, paintings and sculptures – Picasso’s ‘Sylvette’ series. While sitting for these portraits, she would often sketch to while away the time, and though she did not return to art again until later in her life, today Lydia Corbett is herself a celebrated artist working fromher studio in the south-west of England. It has been said that Picasso found in his teenage muse ‘le secret de la jeunesse’ (the secret of youth). Her art has a distinctively free and ‘childlike’ in style, she utilises multiple mediums including inks, watercolours, acrylics and oils, and also produces beautiful ceramics influenced by her time with Picasso. Her colourful paintings are predominantly still-life works, taking inspiration from the natural world. They are often filled with an abundance of beautiful flowers, and frequently feature human figures that sit somewhere on the border between fantasy and reality. The paintings have been noted for this characteristically dreamlike quality, and Corbett’s gently playful use of figures in particular has been compared to the work of Marc Chagall, while her free, confident lines are said to recall Jean Cocteau. Corbett has described how her liberal upbringing in particular enabled the spontaneous and emotionally honest nature of her artworks – her ‘stories in paint’. Lydia Corbett/Sylvette David has been the subject of a 1993 BBC documentary film, which focused on her relationship with Pablo Picasso. Her artwork has been shown in the Tate, as well as other locations in London, Europe and Japan, and features in prominent collections.

Creator:
Lydia Corbett (1934)
Creation Year:
20th Century
Dimensions:
Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 33.47 in (85 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
Medium:
Mixed Media
Period:
20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
York, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU79414412051

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