Editing Pablo Picasso (section)

== Personal life ==
Picasso has been characterized as a womaniser and a misogynist, being quoted as saying to his longtime partner [[Françoise Gilot]] that "women are machines for suffering."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Delistraty |first=Cody |date=9 November 2017 |title=How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/09/how-picasso-bled-the-women-in-his-life-for-art/ |access-date=25 April 2020 |website=The Paris Review |language=en}}</ref> He later allegedly told her, "For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schwartz |first=Alexandra |date=16 July 2019 |title=How Picasso's Muse Became a Master |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/how-picassos-muse-became-a-master |access-date=25 April 2020 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en}}</ref> In her memoir, ''Picasso, My Grandfather'', [[Marina Picasso]] writes of his treatment of women, "He submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, and crushed them onto his canvas. After he had spent many nights extracting their essence, once they were bled dry, he would dispose of them."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Picasso |first=Marina |title=Picasso: My Grandfather |publisher=Riverhead |year=2001 |isbn=1-57322-953-9 |location=New York}}</ref> 

From early adolescence, Picasso maintained both superficial and intense amatory sexual relationships. Biographer John Richardson stated that 'work, sex, and tobacco' were his addictions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richardson |first1=John |title=A Life of Picasso Volume 1: 1881 - 1906 |date=1991 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |location=London |isbn=0-224-03024-8 |page=325}}</ref> Picasso was married twice and had four children with three women:

* {{ill|Paulo Picasso|fr|Paulo Picasso}} (4 February 1921 – 5 June 1975, Paul Joseph Picasso) – his son with [[Olga Khokhlova]]
* [[Maya Widmaier-Picasso|Maya]] (5 September 1935 – 20 December 2022, Maria de la Concepcion Picasso) – his daughter with [[Marie-Thérèse Walter]]
* [[Claude Picasso|Claude]] (15 May 1947 – 24 August 2023, Claude Ruiz Picasso) – his son with Françoise Gilot
* [[Paloma Picasso|Paloma]] (born 19 April 1949, Anne Paloma Picasso) – his daughter with Françoise Gilot

Picasso married ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova in 1918.<ref name=":12" /> In 1935, Picasso began divorce proceedings, but Khokhlova refused to divorce.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Wallis |first=Lucy |date=2023-09-23 |title=Picasso's twisted beauty – and the 'trail of female carnage' he left behind |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66843990 |access-date=2025-04-14 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> They legally separated in 1941, but remained married until Khokhlova's death in 1955.<ref name=":7" /> 

When Picasso's mistress Marie-Thèrése Walter gave birth to their daughter Maya in 1935, he secretly placed them in an apartment at 44 rue de La Boétie in the [[8th arrondissement of Paris|8th arrondissement]], which was across from his residence with his wife Olga at number 23.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news |last=Darwent |first=Charles |date=2023-01-03 |title=Maya Widmaier-Picasso obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/03/maya-widmaier-picasso-obituary |access-date=2025-04-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 1937, Marie-Thèrése and Maya were sent to [[Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre]].<ref name=":9" /> Maya was 10 years old when she learned that she had an older brother, Paulo.<ref name=":9" />

Photographer and painter [[Dora Maar]] was a constant companion and lover of Picasso. The two were closest in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and it was Maar who documented the painting of ''[[Guernica (painting)|Guernica]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guernica Introduction |url=https://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/gmain.html |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=www.pbs.org}}</ref>

In December 1961, Picasso's children with artist Françoise Gilot, Claude and Paloma, were granted full legal rights to use the name Picasso after their father legally recognized his paternity in a written statement submitted to a French court.<ref name=":10" /> However, ten years later, Picasso successfully contested a legal case in which he refused to acknowledge paternity.<ref name=":10" /> Three weeks following the 1961 court case, newspapers revealed his second marriage to Jacqueline Roque, a salesgirl at a pottery store. In her 1964 book ''Life with Picasso'', Gilot describes his abusive treatment and myriad infidelities which led her to leave him, taking the children with her in 1953.<ref name="life6" /><ref name=":22" /> The book angered Picasso and he severed ties with his children.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Hawley |first=Janet |date=2011-08-28 |title=A wife apart |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/europe-travel/france/paris/a-wife-apart-7x86q823xm5?region=global |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=The Sunday Times |language=en}}</ref> His strained relationship with Claude and Paloma was never healed.<ref name="expre" /> Gilot later stated in an interview with ''[[The Times]]'': <blockquote>He was astonishingly creative, so intelligent and seductive. If he was in the mood to charm, even stones would dance to his tune. But he was also cruel, sadistic and merciless to others as well as to himself. Everything had to be his way. You were there for him; he was not there for you. Pablo thought he was God, but he was not God — and that annoyed him! ... Pablo was the greatest love of my life, but you had to take steps to protect yourself. I did. I left before I was destroyed. The others didn't, they clung on to the mighty [[Minotaur]] and paid a heavy price.<ref name=":22" /></blockquote>Of the several important women in his life, two–lover Marie-Thèrése Walter and his second wife Jacqueline Roque–died by suicide. Others, notably his first wife Olga Khokhlova and lover Dora Maar, succumbed to nervous breakdowns. His grandson, Pablito, died by suicide from ingesting bleach when he was barred by Picasso's widow Jacqueline from attending the artist's funeral in 1973.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> His son, Paulo, died from alcoholism due to depression in 1975.<ref name=":22" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=1975-06-07 |title=Paulo Picasso, 54, Dies in Paris; Artist's Only Legitimate Child |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/07/archives/paulo-picasso-54-dies-in-paris-artists-only-legitimate-child.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso, Jacqueline fatally shot herself 1986.<ref name="famil" />