He lived 91 years and died the richest artist of all time. However, talent and money did not bring him personal happiness. Despite the huge number of women around him, he could not find his one and only. Who, in fact, was this mystery man - Pablo Picasso, whose brief biography opens it in a new light ...
"The Magnificent Fernanda"
Going to conquer the Mecca of the arts - Paris, the young Spaniard Pablo Ruiz Picasso wrote his self-portrait and at the top of the canvas brought an immodest inscription: "I am the king!". However, before leaving, the gypsy woman guessed to him: "You, Pablo, will never bring happiness to anyone!" But he was so young, handsome and genius that he did not believe in predictions.
In Paris, Pablo immediately found himself a muse, with whom he lived for 9 years. She turned out to be Fernanda Olivier, a pretty tall laundress in a house where Picasso rented a house. In her first visit to the artist, the girl received a gift - a small mirror in the form of a heart. I must say, this will be the only "jewel" that will be found in the casket after her death.
In 1907, Pablo Picasso finally broke with realism in painting and, together with J. Braque, showed the world a new direction in art - cubism. Studying almost every day the "anatomy" of the body of Fernanda, Pablo was so fed up with "naked naturalism" that, experimenting, first decided on the deformation of "nature" on the canvas, and then on the complete decomposition of the depicted forms on different planes, lines, points , circles ...
Who would now know about the second passion of the painter Eva Güell, Fernanda's girlfriend and not a single Polish painter if Picasso did not immortalize her in two of his canvases by signing them with a confession: "I love Eve." But the loving Pablo, however, was not faithful to Eve. He cheated on her with the fashion model at that time Ebi Lespinass.
"You should marry Russian girls"
In early 1917, the poet Jean Cocteau invited Picasso to take part in the design of the play "Parade" for the ballet troupe Diaghilev, who toured at that time in Italy. Pablo agreed without hesitation.
In Rome, Russian ballerinas simply shocked the artist with his grace. In the afternoon, he painted the curtain and sketches of costumes, and at night walked with the beautiful servants of Melpomene. In Diaghilev's company, such subtle prims shone like Tamara Karsavina and Vera Coralli. But Picasso felt attracted to only one girl from the corps de ballet - 25-year-old Olga Khokhlova, the daughter of the tsar's general, who broke for the stage with her family. "Pablo, be careful," warned Diaghilev, noticing that the artist spends all his free time with Khokhlova, "on Russian girls one must marry." "You, of course, are joking ?!" - the painter laughed in response, himself not realizing how much he was in love. He painted a lot of Olga. Once, knowing Pablo's unusual creative manner, she jokingly ordered: "I want to know my face." And the artist obeyed her desire.
In Barcelona, Picasso gave his mother a newly painted portrait of Khokhlova in a Spanish mantilla. A wise woman understood everything and, having taken a moment, told Olga: "No woman can be happy with my son." But Olga was too enthusiastic about Pablo to listen to the advice.
Once, leaving the artist's studio, the ballerina stumbled and twisted her leg. "You can not dance anymore! - Picasso exclaimed wroth. "It's my fault, and therefore ... I must marry you." They were married in Paris on July 12, 1918 in a Russian church in Daru Street.
On different planets
After a honeymoon spent in Biarritz, Olga thoroughly took up the "re-education" of her husband. Bohemian friends by the efforts of Khokhlova forgot the way to their house. The Picasso had new acquaintances - King of Portugal Manuel, Prince of Monaco Pierre, Arthur Rubinstein, Marcel Proust.
However, soon all this aristocratic chic began to irritate the artist. The couple began a family quarrel, exacerbated by Olga's jealousy of the artist's models. The birth of Paul's son in 1921 for a while changed the weather in the house, but then scandals broke out with even greater force. If before his wife on his canvases resembled Olympic goddesses, now he purposely portrayed it in the form of an old megger or ... a horse.
Finally, Picasso demanded the dissolution of the marriage, but the lawyers quickly cooled his ardor: then, according to the marriage contract, half of the property would be transferred to Khokhlova. About divorce, he did not stutter, but demonstratively covered half of the matrimonial bed with old newspapers.
Once Pablo brought 17-year-old Maria Teresa Walter into the house. The name of Picasso did not say anything to her, but "Valkyrie" (as he christened the girl) immediately agreed to pose as a nude and admitted that she loves sports and sex most of all.
Olga Khokhlova, unable to withstand such treacherous betrayal, took the child and left the house. Marc Chagall rightly remarked: "They lived on different planets."
"I will die, never having fallen in love with anyone"
During the war, remaining in occupied Paris, the 62-year-old Picasso met 21-year-old Francoise Gilot. She gave birth to two children: Claude and Paloma. Picasso often wanted to enter into her marriage, but later recalled that he was formally married to a former Russian ballerina, and calmed down. However, Francoise was not very happy with Picasso. Imagining once aging Pablo in treason, she packed up things and left the house with the children.
The second official wife of the already 80-year-old painter was Jacqueline Rock. It was Jacqueline who inspired him to a series of beautiful portraits and elegant drawings in the style of "nude."
Immediately after the death of Picasso, in 1973, his grandson Pablito (Paul's son) committed suicide. A couple of weeks, "burned" from alcohol and drugs and Paul himself. In October 1977, Maria Teresa - one of the master mistresses hanged herself. Then in a car accident her daughter from Picasso Maria got. Finally, on October 15, 1986, Jacqueline Rock unexpectedly shot herself in her bedroom.
The ancient prediction of a gypsy has come true: the artist has not brought happiness to anyone. Remained only the paintings of Pablo Picasso - brief biographies of the master and dumb witnesses of his love interests.