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You know Pablo Picasso. Now meet the women behind the masterpieces. The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame - until, in the 1950's, aspiring journalist Alana Olsen determines to bring one into the light and discovers a past complicated by secrets and intrique.
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People used to say of my lover that he lived only for art, that women and politics did not matter to him the way his art mattered. But people change. When Franco and Hitler destroyed that Spanish town, Guernica, Pablo Picasso changed. You cannot look at that painting, at the screaming mothers and violence and think, this is a man who does not care about people and politics.
I have seen how his face changes when he speaks of Francoise, the woman who is leaving him.
“I think it will be a fine day,” I said. “But come back to bed, Pablo. It is still early.” I smoothed and pattered the rumpled sheet that was still damp from our little bacchanal…
Pablo returns his gaze to his own image in the mirror and studies it, drawing the razor through the white foam on his cheek and making a curve, olive flesh showing through a white background. Another work of art…
He throws a towel at me. “Get up. The car will be here soon.”
“Lisen to you, my love. A car. A chauffeur. I remember when you had holes in your boots, when you were my young love.”
“That was long ago.”
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Thank you so much for featuring PICASSO'S LOVERS today.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for hosting me and my newest novel, Picasso's Lovers. How fascinating it was, to learn and write about, the love stories that inspired the paintings.
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