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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Dalya Alberge

‘His life was full of contradictions’: Picasso’s grandson defends the artist’s behaviour towards women

Femme Au Beret Et a La Robe Quadrillee - Marie-Therese Walter by Pablo Picasso.
Femme Au Beret Et a La Robe Quadrillee - Marie-Therese Walter by Pablo Picasso. Photograph: Vickie Flores/In Pictures/Getty Images


Pablo Picasso, who created some of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, was also a notorious womaniser and once said that “there are only two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats”. Viewed through a 21st-century lens, he has been seen as a misogynist and monstrous.

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