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 ...

Fifty years after being a model for Picasso, Lydia Corbett from South Devon is making her own mark in the arts world. Sylvette David was a model. Lydia Corbett is an artist. They are one and the same.

Lydia Corbett was one of Picasso’s muses and went on to be an artist herself. Now she has a new exhibition with her daughter Alice. Maddy Mussen talks to them about a remarkable past and a ...

Artist Lydia Corbett is to present a new exhibition of her paintings in London — while a parallel show in Germany reunites dozens of works she inspired Pablo Picasso to create. The 79-year-old ...

For French artist, former model and Picasso’s only living muse, Sylvette David (now Lydia Corbett), the immortalisation marked a positive, fruitful and creative period. ‘It was like magic,’ says ...

Sylvette David, 88, also known as Lydia Corbett, posed for the renowned Spanish artist in more than 73 of his paintings - notably ‘The Girl With The Pony Tail’. Dubbed 'The 20th Century Mona ...

Since that time, Sylvette changed her name to Lydia Corbett, and her ponytail to plaits, swapped France for the Devon countryside, and became an artist in her own right. On November 5, Corbett, now ...