Relationships with women were central to the life of the great artist Pablo Picasso. He could not make some lovers happy. The genius not only "disfigured" their beautiful features on his canvases, but also brought them to depression and suicide.
Pablo Picasso is a brilliant Spanish painter. Throughout his life, the women who were next to him influenced his work. With a height of 158 centimeters, he possessed a powerful male energy, amazing charm, and his charisma attracted female attention like a magnet. Picasso himself said: "For me, there are two types of women: goddesses and rags for drying feet." But over time he transferred some of his "goddesses" into the second category.
Fernanda Olivier
Model Fernanda Olivier became the first big love in the life of Picasso. He was with her for almost 10 years. Fernanda was a woman with a very dubious past. She managed to be the muse of several artists. Fernanda had a great influence on the work of Picasso. She happily posed for him naked. During the period of relations with her, the famous painter changed his style of work. His paintings became more "warm", pink tones appeared in them.
Fernanda Olivier and Pablo Picasso lived very poorly. The young woman could not leave the house, because she did not have shoes, but she did not make claims to her lover and was next to him. Poverty did not affect relationships in the best way, and gradually this romance outlived its usefulness.
Marcel Humbert
With Marcel Humbert Pablo met in 1911 in the Parisian cafe "Hermitage". This fragile woman was not like the previous companion of the genius. She was graceful and slender, petite. Almost immediately after the meeting, Picasso began to call her Eve. He said that she was his first truly beloved woman. The artist often depicted her on canvases in the form of a guitar, symbolizing grace and grace. But the bright star in the firmament of Picasso's life went out quickly. Marcel died of tuberculosis.
Olga Khokhlova
After the death of his beloved Eva, Picasso was in a creative stagnation for a long time. To distract Pablo from sad thoughts, his friend invited him to decorate the scenery for Diaghilev's ballet troupe. This work led to an acquaintance with the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. She became his first official wife. The painter later admitted that he did not understand what prompted him at that time to marry this woman and even marry her.
After the wedding, their life did not go well. Olga reduced everything to the financial well-being of the family. She wanted her husband to paint only what sells well. The ballerina loved a luxurious life, she was happy to spend her husband's money. Picasso was very angry about this.
The birth of a son did not save the relationship. Picasso, in order to take revenge on his wife, painted her in the form of an evil old woman with sharp teeth, and then created a whole series of her pictorial portraits, where she is depicted as a woman-monster. He got a mistress and Olga went crazy with jealousy. All this brought her to a deep depression. In 1955, Olga died of cancer.
Maria Teresa Walter
Maria-Teresa Walter was only 17 years old at the time of her meeting with the genius. For a while, she became everything to him: a mistress, a friend, a muse, an object of desire. The period when she was next to Picasso, art critics call the pinnacle of his work. Everything changed when, in 1935, Maria Teresa gave birth to a daughter, Maya, from Pablo. The artist lost interest in his beloved and went to another mistress.
Dora Maar
Dora Maar became the next beloved woman of Picasso. She was an artist, photographer and possessed the same unbridled temperament as Pablo himself. One day Dora and Maria Teresa met and it all ended in a fight. Picasso later recalled this event in his life as one of the most striking.
Gradually, the artist began to get tired of his relationship with Dora. He was not satisfied with the scandals that she constantly arranged for him. For some time he lived with two women at once, and then gradually returned to Maria Teresa with her daughter. Relations with Picasso for both women ended tragically. Tired of waiting, Marie-Teresa hanged herself. Dora was very upset about parting and fell into a deep depression, from which she then had to be treated for a long time.
Marie Françoise Gilot
Marie Françoise Gilot became for Picasso not only his common-law wife, but also his most talented student. Picasso was 40 years older than her, but the age difference did not bother both. Françoise succeeded in the profession and became a famous artist. She called her family life with Picasso successful. With this woman, Pablo first learned that relationships can be happy, that partners can feed each other without losing their own energy.
Françoise bore him children - a son, Claude, and a daughter, Paloma, who received the surname Picasso. After the death of their father, they became the owners of part of his huge fortune. Being a strong woman, she herself broke off relations with the artist when she found out that he was cheating on her. Later, she published a memoir about life with the artist and for this reason he stopped communicating with her.
Jacqueline Rock
Jacqueline Rock became the last love of a genius. This young woman was Picasso's secretary and model, and later became his legal wife.
The great artist painted over 400 portraits of his second wife. She elevated the personality of her husband to a cult and surrounded her with love and adoration. This is exactly what the artist needed at the end of his life.
