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Eva Gouel

French choreographer, Paintor. Picasso partner (1885–1915)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ528534 ↗
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Eva Gouel (1885–December 14, 1915) was a French choreographer and the second girlfriend of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso during the early 1910s. She was the inspiration for several of his paintings, including Ma Jolie (1912).

Death

On December 14, 1915, Gouel died from tuberculosis at the age of 30. Picasso was devastated by her death. His 1915 painting, Harlequin, shows his sorrow.

References

Further reading

Morgan, Barbara (2002). "Gouel, Eva (d. 1915)". In Commire, Anne (ed.). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia.

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“Eva Gouel” enters the record as french choreographer, Paintor. Picasso partner (1885–1915). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gouel, French and choreographer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885, 1915, 1912, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1885-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gouel, French and choreographer.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q528534. VIAF identifies the subject as 309856716. The Library of Congress control number is no2014101942. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1885, 1915, 1912 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eva Gouel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.