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. It was painted in black, white, and grey, and it shows people dying and suffering raid. (e.library). The novelist Claude Roy, saw Guernica at the Paris World's Fair and described it as " a message from another planet." "Its violence dumbfounded me, it petrified me with an anxiety I had never experienced before." The Surrealist poet Michel Leiris summed up the sense of despair engendered by Guernica: " In a rectangle of black and white such as that in which ancient tragedy appeared to us, Picasso sends us our announcement of our mourning: all that we love is going to die ." Herbert Read went even further: all that we love, Picasso is saying has died. On May 15, 1947, at the Belvedere Clinic in Boulogne, Francoise gave birth to a baby boy. This was Picass's third child by a third women. They named the baby Claude. This is what Dominique Desanti, who visited a few times after Claude was born had to say. "They were very striking couple together. She was so beautiful and he was really astonishing, so aesthetically they were very striking to look at. He would make aggressive remarks meant to pu down and humiliate her in front of otheres ans she would laugh and make what he said seem innocuous. He would Alfonso 6 refer to her as "the woman." "What has the woman made for dinner?" he would ask. Or he would look at an erotically dressed woman on a postcard and sight: "What a dream to have such a woman in front of you." And Francoise would laugh and diffuse it: "It's very easy. We can do that. Just get me a dress like that and I"ll put ion - it would be a very amusing disguise.
