Personal Life: Love life,children,death

The life of picasso...

In 1895, Picasso's seven-year old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria - a traumatic event in his life, after her death his family move to Barcelona.

Picasso’s father and uncle decided to send the young artist to Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Francisco. After studing art in Madrid, Picasso made is first trip to Paris in 1900, there he meet his friend Max Jacob. In 1901 Picasso and his friend Francisco de Asís Soler founded Arte Joven, Picasso illustrated the journal. From that day he signed with the name of Picasso. Picasso was married twice and had four children by three women. In the summer of 1918, Picasso married Olga Khokhlova,the two had a son, Paulo.

In 1927 Picasso met 17 year old Marie-Thérèse Walter and began a secret affair with her. Picasso’s marriage to Khokhlova soon ended in separation rather than divorce. The two remained legally married until Khokhlova’s death in 1955.

Marie-Thérèse lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her, and hanged herself four years after Picasso’s death.The photographer and painter Dora Maar was also 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.After the liberation of Paris in 1944, Picasso began to keep company with a young art student, Françoise Guilot.

The two eventually became lovers, and had two children together, Claude and Paloma.

Picasso was not long in finding another lover, Jacqueline Roque.

Pablo Picasso died on April 9, 1973 in Mougins,Françe, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner.His final words were “Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more.”