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Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and still living with his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. It ended when Picasso moved on to his next mistress, artist Dora Maar.

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Author Herbert T. At the time Picasso was married to Olga Khokhlova, a Russian ballerina, with whom he had a five-year-old son. He and Walter, then seventeen years old, began a relationship, which was kept secret from his wife until In July , Picasso bought a castle at Boisgeloup close to Gisors in the Normandie, which he used as a studio for sculptures mainly.

Marie was the unseen shadow of the family and became his model and muse for both paintings and sculptures. In , Marie became pregnant. When Picasso's wife, Olga, was informed by a friend that her husband had a longtime mistress who was expecting a child, she immediately left Picasso and moved to the South of France with their son Paulo. Picasso and Olga never divorced, because Picasso wanted to avoid the even division of property dictated by French law; instead, they lived separately until her death in Marie and Maya stayed with Picasso at Juan-les-Pins in the South of France from 25 March to 14 May , and then at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre, 25 kilometres 16 mi from Versailles, where Picasso visited on the weekends and some weekdays to play with his daughter.

Maya also modelled for some of his paintings, including Maya with Doll Once, she and Maar met accidentally in Picasso's studio when he was painting Guernica. Asked about this in later life, Picasso remarked that he had been quite happy with the situation and that when they demanded that he choose between them, he told them that they would have to fight it out themselves, at which point the two women began to wrestle.

Picasso described it "as one of his choicest memories. We would be grateful if you would support our work by recording your loved ones, preserving their memory for future generations. We cannot record everything.