Born in Lapland in northern Sweden, Marianne Greenwood moved to St. Paul de Vence, France, after World War II. There she spent much time with Pablo Picasso, who painted her portrait and became the subject of her first major book, Picasso in Antibes.
In 1963, she began 30 years of travels all over the world. Eventually she would traverse the world six times and visit the still-wild lands of the Americas and the Pacific basin, where she lived with the native peoples for extended periods.
Marianne Greenwood’s marvelous adventures have been recorded in six books of autobiography, the most famous of which is The Tattooed Heart of Livingston, an intensely personal account of a love affair and of encounters with bullfighters, artists, brigands and Indians.
Her extraordinary photographs, some 30,000 of which are now held by the National Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, and the Musée Picasso Antibes, have been used to illustrate a number of books and magazines.
Wings WorldQuest has awarded Marianne Greenwood the 2005 Wings Women Discovery Award for Lifetime Achievement and has selected her as a 2005 Carey Fellow.Marianne Hederström GreenwoodA Photographic Retrospective: 1943 - 1990The National Arts Club15 Gramercy Park SouthFebruary 28 - March 5, 2005Call for gallery hours: 212-475-3424For more information about Marianne Greenwood, visit www.ideosphere.se/mgPhoto: © Marianne Greenwood