"It was like a fairy tale," says a former model for Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, as she describes being asked to sit for the painter when she was 19-years-old. Sylvette David, who with long blond ...

Pablo Picasso’s pal is giving NYU the brushoff. Sylvette David, who posed for the Spanish artist more than 50 years ago and was the model for a sculpture that stands in the plaza of the university’s ...

Pablo Picasso's former muse says he was not a misogynist and she did not have an affair with him - but did pose topless. Sylvette David, 88, also known as Lydia Corbett, posed for the renowned Spanish ...

When Sylvette David was just 19, she met the ageing Picasso, who was immediately entranced and immortalised her in a series of works. Alastair Sooke looks back at the moment the artist met his muse.

Pablo Picasso's Sylvette has become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in Australia. The brightly coloured portrait sold for $6.9 million at an auction in Sydney. Kensington's ...

Pablo Picasso’s enduring reputation as a hard drinker and philanderer has been called into question and dismissed as "rubbish" for the first time by his former muse. Picasso has become renowned as ...

Pablo Picasso was many things — an artistic genius, one of the most important, talented and prolific painters of the 20th century and, according to reviewers of the latest exhibition of his work, ...

Lydia Corbett was just 19 when she became Pablo Picasso’s muse, modelling for the artist in his studio in the Provence village where she was growing up. The portraits - including oil paintings, ...

FRANÇOISE GILOT, Picasso's long-term partner, compared the artist to Bluebeard, the fictional nobleman who murdered a string of wives. Both Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter and his second wife ...

She has been dubbed 'The 20th Century Mona Lisa' after posing for more than 73 of his paintings Pablo Picasso's former muse says he was not a misogynist and she did not have an affair with him - but ...