Descripción
This poster is a reproduction of a lithograph showing the profile of a boy and two girls, probably Claude, Paloma and Cathy (Catherine Hutin-Blay, daughter of Jacqueline), who was for Picasso “his own daughter”. Their faces display the friendly and mischievous expressions typical of children.
Jacquiline Hutin, née Roque, had been invited by her cousin Madame Ramié to help her in her ceramics workshop. It was there, in 1952, that Jacqueline met Picasso, at the age of twenty-seven. After Catherine was born, Jacqueline was unable to have any more children. Later, referring to the paintings Picasso had painted while they were together, she called them “our children”.
Cathy was living with her mother when her relationship with Picasso began. Later, she would spend periods at Picasso’s home with her children, a situation that later became impossible due to the situation between Picasso and Françoise, and the independence that Mata preferred for her own development and that Cathy also had to seek, for the same reasons. Curiously, Maya and Cathy spent a long period in Spain, as part of their journey to forge their own destiny. Cathy was in Valladolid, Salamanca and Santander to learn Spanish.
