Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life by Sue Roe; W. W. Norton, 304 pp., $35
Over seven decades, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiano María Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso annexed women nonstop. To Marina Picasso, her celebrated grandfather was an obligate carnivore, in life and in art. “He needed blood to sign each of his paintings,” she declared in 2001—the “blood of all those who loved him,” adding later that he “submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, then crushed them onto his canvas.”
Over seven decades, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiano María Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso annexed women nonstop. To Marina Picasso, her celebrated grandfather was an obligate carnivore, in life and in art. “He needed blood to sign each of his paintings,” she declared in 2001—the “blood of all those who loved him,” adding later that he “submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, then crushed them onto his canvas.”
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