Life During War

At the time of World War 2 Picasso was in Paris when the Germans took the city over. The nazis did not like his art work and therefore he had to hide his work at the time. He hid in his studio while working on his art. Once Paris was let free in 1944 Picasso met a new girl Françoise Gilot. The couple eventually had two children together, Claude and Paloma. Gilot left Picasso in 1953 for apparently being abusive spouse. Now in his 70s Picassos art work became very personal. He saw himself as a no longer attractive male, his art showed how he felt. He did several paintings of ugly old dwarf as buffoonish counterpoint to the beautiful young girl. Picasso may have thought he was no longer attractive but he soon found a new lover, Jacqueline Roque. She worked at a pottery store where Picasso often made ceraics. The two married in 1961 and stayed together for the rest of Picassos life. Other then being an artist, Picasso had a film career, including a cameo appearance in Jean Cocteau’s Testament of Orpheus. In 1955 he helped make the film Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner. His final words were "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more." Heartbroken and lonely after the death of her husband, Roque took her own life by gunshot in 1986 when she was 60 years old.