Picasso, Madame
(1891–1955)
Picasso, Madame (B * NIEZIN, UKRAINE, 1891– D † CANNES, 1955) Born Olga Kokhlova, daughter of a Russian army colonel, she was a ballerina who debuted with Diaghilev's (1872–1929) Les Ballets russes in 1912 in Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. She met Picasso in Rome in 1917 while she was rehearsing Les Femmes de bonne humeur (The Good Natured Women, the role of Felicita), at the time Picasso and Cocteau were developing the ballet Parade. Picasso asked Cocteau to serve as peacemaker after Olga…