Picasso

            October 25, 1881 Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born.At the same time when Picasso was having one of his many flings, Eva became very sick. When Eva was hospitalized, that was the first time Picasso was alone in years. He went to see her everyday at the hospital, but he needed someone to comfort him during his lonely nights. He found someone to comfort him during his lonely nights. Gaby Lespinasse was her name. A beautiful twenty-seven year old Parisian. December 14, 1915, Eva dies. "My poor Eva is dead," he wrote to Gertrude Stein. " It was a great sorrow she was always so good to me." Ever since his little sister had so suddenly died, it seemed that death always winning." (Huffington 52). This was Picasso saddest Christmas of his life. After Eva's death Picasso met Olga Koklova, she was the daughter of a colonel in the Imperial Russian Army and had been bornin in Niezin, in the ukraine. Picassso had always had a fascination with Russian things. On July 12, 1918 Picasso married Olga. On February 4, 1921, Olga gave birth to a baby boy. They named him Paulo. Paulo was one of Picasso favorite subjects for many years. He first sketched him on the day he was born, and he continued and paint pictures of Paulo while he grew up. In 1927, Picasso met Marie-Therese, who would later give birth to his daughter. On September 5, 1935 Marie-Therese gave birth to a girl. This was Picasso second child by a different women. " The baby was given the name of her father's dead sister, Maria de Alfonso 5 LaConcpcion, but on her birth certificate the identity of the father was declared unknown"(Huffington 54). He loved Paulo more than he loved her. He would later change her name to Maya Walter. One of Picasso's best-known paintings is Guernica, done in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Nazi airplanes had bombed the Spanish town of Guernica. Picasso was outraged by news of the death and destruction and put these feelings into a painting 26 feet long.