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Pablo Picasso, October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973.

With Luis Miguel Dominguín, Jacqueline Roque, Jean Cocteau, Lucia Bosé, and Serge Lifar.

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Ceramic Picasso necklace

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Jacqueline Roque wearing a ceramic necklace made by Pablo Picasso (1957)

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Pablo Picasso with his second wife, Jacqueline Roque, in the 1960s🌹 Picasso was almost 50 years older than Jacqueline, but that didn’t stop him from bringing her a rose every day for six months in his effort to secure her affections. After their marriage in 1961, he proceeded to paint over 400 portraits of her until he died 11 years later. Their mutual enjoyment of each other was said to be immediate and obvious. Follow us on Instagram to see more.

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26-year-old Jacqueline Roque met 72-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1953. Picasso pursued Roque by bringing her a rose every day for 6 months until she agreed to go on a date with him. They were married in 1961 and remained married until Picasso’s death on 8 April 1973.

Picasso made more than 400 portraits of Jacqueline, more than any of his other wife or mistresses.

Pablo Picasso’s longtime mistress (and mother of Claude and Paloma), Françoise Gilot, unsuccessfully contested the will and fought with Jacqueline over how to deal with the artist’s estate, before establishing the Musée Picasso in Paris in 1974 (inheritance taxes in France could be paid with donated works of cultural significance.)

Jacqueline continued to oversee the exhibition of Picasso’s works, and in 1986 she announced the exhibition of her private collection in Spain. She killed herself on 15 October 1986, before the exhibit opened.

Marie-Thérèse Walter, who had been Picasso’s mistress from around 1927 to 1935, took her own life on 20 October 1977.