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My father, Picasso: secret daughter tells of posing in pink bootees – The Guardian
A new book of family memories paints the artist as doting dad, rather than the callous, ageing womaniser of other recent depictions
Pablo Picasso was still married to the former ballerina Olga Khokhlova when he became captivated by a 17-year-old girl outside the Galeries Lafayette in Paris in 1927.
He was 28 years her senior, but Marie-Thérèse Walter soon became his muse for voluptuous portraits and gave birth to his daughter before he moved on to the next of his many relationships, with Dora Maar, the surrealist photographer and painter.
That daughter, Maya Ruiz-Picasso, now 84, has spoken of the women in her fathers life…
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