Word: picasso
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Your cover story on Picasso and his art [May 26] was the best I've ever read...
...accompanying article on his life: that he never gave Fernande Olivier, his first mistress, any financial aid. I saw her in 1966. She was white-haired and bedridden, looked very small in her tiny apartment in the environs of Paris, and had pinned on the wall postcards of Picasso's Blue Period paintings. She told me she had never asked him for a penny, but that when she became too crippled to work a year or so before, a mutual friend had told Pablo, and since then he had paid for her rent and her care. As she spoke...
...these times of riots, exploding mountains and angry Iranians, we needed to see Picasso on the cover of TIME [May 26]. The extraordinarily beautiful painting and accompanying article on Picasso and his art provided a blissful, if temporary escape...
Robert Hughes' article was cogent, incisive, powerful-a word portrait worthy of Picasso's Picassos...
...Picasso painted women as though he truly hated them. Maybe our woman-hating society has something to do with his immense popularity...