A friend of Picasso proudly showed him a painting of his he had just bought. Picasso dismissed it: "It's a fake." "What do you mean, it's a fake? I watched you paint it!" "Sometimes I paint fakes," Picasso shrugged.
This is a fairly famous Picasso painting found
in the museum. It is a likeness of one of Picasso's favorite little mistresses 17-year-old Marie Thérèse Walker with whom the 37-year-old Picasso had an affair beginning in 1927. It is clear to tell from his good looks that Picasso was quite the lady's man. He was married four times, allegedly having a number of affairs while married to his first three wives. Friends say that Pablo refused to work in the presence of others, but hated to be alone while not at work, perhaps leading to his many female acquaintances. He was always painting pictures of his girls, and the museum here in Paris has a whole room dedicated to Marie Thérèse. Pablo married Olga Khokhlova in 1918, and ended up seperating from her a few years after he started his affair with Marie. They never got divorced because French law required a 50-50 separation of wealth at divorcement, and Picasso refused to give up his stuff and money. Finally Olga died in 1955 and Pablo was free to marry Marie. However, he never did, breaking Marie's heart. She hanged herself due to this after Pablo died. Another happy story coming your way from my blog. This is just one of the many stories of Pablo's wives, mistresses and children most of whom he ended up driving away, but he always got remarried just in time, or took legal cautions so that he could keep all of his money and works. It has been said that most of the paintings he did in his old age were a cry out for his old days of youth and women.
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