Claude Picasso

Claude Ruiz Picasso (15 May 1947 – 24 August 2023) was a French photographer, cinematographer, film director, visual artist, graphic designer, businessman, and the third child of the artist Pablo Picasso.

Claude Picasso
Born	Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso (1947-05-15)15 May 1947 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Died	24 August 2023(2023-08-24) (aged 76) Switzerland
Nationality	French, Spanish
Spouses	Sara Lavner ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1972)​ Sydney Russel ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 2000)​
Parents	Pablo Picasso (father) Françoise Gilot (mother)
Relatives	Paloma Picasso (sister) Maya Widmaier-Picasso (half-sister) Jonas Salk (stepfather) Marina Picasso (niece) Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (nephew)

Biography

Picasso was a child of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso^[1] and the older brother of Paloma Picasso. By a wish on Gilot's part, he was named after Claude Gillot (1673–1722), a pioneering French Rococo artist and mentor to fellow artist Jean-Antoine Watteau.^[2] His name was Claude Gilot until age 12.^[3] In 1968 he met Sara Lavner (Schultz), a young woman from Brooklyn. Lavner and Picasso married in 1969 and divorced in 1972.^[4] He was a photographer in New York City when his father died. At the time, he had experienced a period of estrangement from his father due to his mother's 1964 memoir Life with Picasso. His father's legacy was important to him, and he established the Picasso Administration^[5] to look after copyright and other legal matters.

Picasso lived in New York from 1967 to 1974. He was Richard Avedon's photographic assistant for almost a year, and studied cinema and mise-en-scène at the Actors Studio. He also worked as a photojournalist for Time Life, Vogue, and Saturday Review.^[6]

Picasso also owned and raced vintage automobiles.^[7]

Claude Picasso died on 24 August 2023, at the age of 76, almost three months after his mother's death.^[8][9]

Awards

Claude Picasso was decorated with the Legion d'Honneur in 2011 for his personal work as photographer, cinematographer, and visual artist, as well as his efforts to administer his father's heritage.

Personal life

He was survived by his wife, Sylvie Vautier Picasso, and his sons, Solal and Jasmin.^[10][11]

References

1. Carvajal, Doreen (3 September 2014). "Picasso Museum to Reopen at Last, With New Leader". The New York Times.
2. Gilot, Françoise; Lake, Carlton (1964). Life with Picasso. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill. p. 160. OCLC 610027514 – via the Internet Archive.
3. Hawley, Janet (23 July 2011). "Pablo was the greatest love of my life ... I left before I was destroyed", Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald, p. 19.
4. Lavner, Sara (2014). The Glitter Factory: The Making and Unmaking of Sara Picasso (A Memoir). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. pp. 27–95. ISBN 978-1499379457.
5. "The Family Concern of Claude Picasso in The Australian".
6. "Remise de décorations à Claude Ruiz-Picasso, Myung-Whun Chung, Ismaïl Serageldin, et Evgueni Kissin". www.culture.gouv.fr.
7. "In Conversation: Claude Picasso and John Richardson". Gagosian Quarterly. 22 January 2019.
8. Cain, Sian (25 August 2023). "Claude Ruiz Picasso, youngest son of Spanish artist, dies aged 76". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
9. "Claude Picasso, le gentilhomme andalou". LEFIGARO. 24 August 2023.
10. Sandomir, Richard (27 August 2023). "Claude Ruiz-Picasso, Who Ran His Artist Father's Estate, Dies at 76". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
11. Cain, Sian (25 August 2023). "Claude Ruiz Picasso, youngest son of Spanish artist, dies aged 76". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 September 2023.

Works cited

• Mallory, Carole (2013). Picasso's Ghost (A Love Story). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1479341856.

External links

• Claude Picasso discography at Discogs
• Claude Picasso at IMDb