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Picasso's emotional life remained turbulent well into old age. In 1953 Francoise Gilot left him, taking with her Claude and Paloma, her two children by Picasso. Not long afterwards he met Jacqueline Roque, and in 1955 they went to live at La Californie, a villa just outside Cannes. Over the years that followed, Picasso made hundreds of portraits of Jacqueline, whose strong features and dark hair make her easy to identify despite the variety of styles in which Picasso worked; she even modelled characters in famous paintings which he reinterpreted, notably The Women of Algiers (Delacroix), Lola de Valence (Manet) and L'Arlesienne (van Gogh).
In 1961 Picasso and Jacqueline married and moved into Notre Dame de Vie at Mougins, which was to be Picasso's final home. He worked there in increasing seclusion, shielded from the pressures of his celebrity by the relative isolation of the house and by Jacqueline, whose role has been variously interpreted as protective and domineering.
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Source: Life and Works of Picasso
Further Reading: Biography I
Further Reading: Life of Picasso
Further Reading: Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau
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