On May 11, 2015, Picasso's oil painting "Algiers Woman" bid for 11 minutes and sold for a whopping $179 million, equivalent to 1.16 billion yuan. It set a record for the highest auction of contemporary art in the world, breaking the previous record for the highest price in the world at auction of $140 million.
In his lifetime, Picasso created more than 37,000 paintings, almost all of which were extremely valuable, and his painting achievements were at the peak. Among the top 10 paintings in the world for auction prices, Picasso accounted for 4 paintings.
He had great wealth. Most of his paintings depict his lovers. And these women, who provided him with creative inspiration and great wealth, did not live happily because of his talent and wealth, but on the contrary, the ending was tragic, the suicide of suicide, the nerves of the nerves, of which only one woman avoided this disaster because she refused to lose herself for him.
The woman was Françoise Gilot. Not counting the wandering warblers who spent the night and stayed briefly, Picasso had 6 long-term lovers. Franços was no. 5, but the only woman who dumped Picasso. She was also one of the two lovers who used Picasso's books to make money, and before her, Picasso's poor and sour girlfriend before he became famous did it.
This girlfriend is called Fernand, from a small family misfortune, because of domestic violence escaped from her husband's family, to Paris to work as a model for painters, at the age of 23 met the same 23-year-old poor acid painter Picasso. The two are poor and matched, hooking up, no one is taller than the other, one for livelihood, one for art, no one is loyal to anyone, no one obeys anyone. When Picasso began to become popular, he couldn't stand Fernand and broke up.
After the breakup, Picasso became more and more popular, and Fernand was depressed. 20 years later, Picasso became a well-known artist, and Fernand finally saw his way to money. She wrote books exposing a lot of private gossip about her old lovers and earning Picasso an expensive sealing fee. Fernand later repented, too little, and continued to publish, until Picasso promised to give her monthly living expenses, Fernand stopped publishing 6 articles, promising never to publish them again before his death. The book was published 15 years after Picasso's death.
Fernand extorted a large and belated breakup fee. She was not controlled by Picasso, because when she fell in love with him they were equally poor, not relying on Picasso's reputation, she maintained an independent self. But the lovers who came after, except for Franços Giraud, who kept a clear head, dumped Picasso, and used the revelations to make a fortune like Fernand, and none of them escaped Picasso's mind control.
Françoise Gilot, a well-to-do art student from a wealthy family, ate in a restaurant at the age of 22 and was picked up by Picasso, 62. Franços recognized him as the famous Picasso in the art world, and was hooked by him, excited in his heart, and his little heart was pounding. The pure love girl who studied art naturally could not escape the gentle clutches of the world master, and she fell in love with him.
After becoming Picasso's lover, the girl dropped out of school and followed Picasso full-time to engage in art. She followed Picasso for ten years, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and Picasso's inspiration was ignited by her youth, and she was full of creativity and created a large number of famous paintings. For example, he painted a painting for the children and made $28.2 million! And Franços, who ran to engage in art, finally achieved Picasso's art, but his aura was sucked away by Picasso and became the mother of a child with a broken flower. And the point is that Picasso is not honest and still spends his heart.
Ten years later, Franços became a woman in her thirties, awakened, and she resolutely left Picasso and married someone else a few years later. From then on, he ignored Picasso and gave Picasso a heavy blow.
Franços was not an averagely beautiful girl, and had received a good education from an early age, with several bachelor's degrees. She consumed Picasso and, after 11 years away, wrote a memoir with whom Picasso lived, Life with Picasso. Picasso, like Fernand's memoirs, asked the lawyer to take a sealing fee to scare Franços, which could not be published. Franços ignored it and published his memoirs. The memoirs have been a huge success, and the book has been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold more than a million copies today! This made Picasso so angry that he never paid any more attention to her children. But the people had no intention of associating with him again.
In addition to these two, Picasso's other lovers, independent selves, were swallowed up by Picasso, although they were the women behind the masters of the art with the highest price for the paintings, but they all ended up miserable.
His first wife, Olga Khokhlova, an ordinary Russian ballet dancer at the Paris Opera House, danced very generally, but with a bit of positivity. After meeting Picasso, she saw that she would never be able to lead the way, and decided to marry the successful painter.
In 1918, Olga and Picasso married and three years later had a son (a son who would later work as a driver for his father for the rest of his life). ）。 Nor did the son win Picasso's heart. After the marriage, the two were full of contradictions, and Picasso left the house to find another woman outside, leaving Olga alone to swallow the desolate tears.
Picasso later found countless lovers, none of whom divorced Olga. Not because he loved her, it was because before the marriage Olga coaxed him to sign an agreement: all the property of the couple was shared, including all the paintings.
This agreement was Olga's confidence in this marriage. When Picasso raised Mary 7 or 8 years later, Olga found out and dared to shout "Divorce!" divorce! ”
She was not afraid, and she could get a divorce and she could take half of the property. But Picasso was afraid, and he didn't want to take half of his property. As long as he does not divorce, he can use his own half of the property to support the little lover, anyway, the old wife is just a decoration, and it does not affect him to find women outside at will.
Picasso and Olga's marriage lasted until he was 74 years old, Olga watched her husband change lovers one by one, listened to his cold and vicious words, and then even this vicious word was gone, and his heart gradually became numb and dry in the life of emotional blankness and self-emptiness, and a person was depressed.
Olga's funeral Picasso did not go.
The woman who made Olga shout "divorce" was Marie-Therèse Walter.
In 1927, the 46-year-old Picasso saw the 17-year-old girl Mary at the door of the Lafayette department store, and suddenly her whole body was numb, and she was stunned for a while, and when the soul was attached again, she directly stepped forward to talk: "I am Picasso, can I invite you to a meal?" After the 17-year-old girl recognized that he was indeed a great painter, she was ecstatic, and suddenly she was picked up by a big figure like Picasso, and without any strength, she directly followed.
High-value and naïve ignorance, that is the gift prepared by heaven for the scumbag.
Mary is hopelessly in love with the big artist, while Picasso is also madly obsessed with the face and body of a 17-year-old girl. Mary ignited his inspiration, and during his time with Mary, he created a large number of portraits and nudes of women, one of which was sold for $155 million. This is the value that Mary offers to artists.
Seven or eight years after Picasso painted Mary, Mary became pregnant, his wife Olga knew, and made a big fuss about "divorce", Picasso only said the word "do not leave", and then he no longer paid attention to his wife, and Zhengda Guangming lived with Mary.
But Mary was also not prosperous, and soon after giving birth to a daughter, Picasso lost interest in her and went to Dora again.
But Mary, the ignorant girl whose soul was sucked away at the age of 17, loved Picasso all her life, listened to his words, fantasized about marrying Picasso, even if Picasso found another lover, she still loved him deeply, alone with children to keep a widow, not to marry twice. After the death of Picasso's wife Olga in 1955, Marie fantasized about becoming his wife, but he married a young girl who was in love at the time. Despite this, Mary still loved him. Mary may have no other way out of life but with Picasso. Less than four years after Picasso's death, Mary committed suicide.
Picasso had already emptied herself.
Dora Mar, who snatched Picasso from Mary, was a photographer.
In 1935, Mary gave birth to a daughter, and at the age of 54, Picasso met Dora, 28. I don't know if Mary was busy taking care of the children and neglecting him, or if Dora was more attractive, but Picasso was moved anyway.
In the restaurant, Picasso and the photographer Dora talk about work, and Dora wants to show her extraordinary, placing one hand on the table, the other hand picking up a dinner knife, and began to quickly intersperse between the five fingers on the table, like acrobatics. This showmanship is also enough to fight, stabbing the hand several times, and does not stop.
The trick worked, instantly captivating Picasso. Picasso asked to give him her bloodied gloves as a souvenir, to be kept for life. Incidentally, Dora was also pulled into bed by him, but did not possess it for life.
Dora is a surrealist photographer who brings fresh blood to Picasso's creations, bringing surrealist and photographic elements into Picasso's artistic life.
Dora is fierce, enthusiastic, and proactive, and in order to compete for Picasso, she listens to Picasso like a passive, quiet Mary. The two existed in Picasso's life at the same time, and the war over the wind and jealousy lasted for seven or eight years, until one time, the two appeared in Picasso's studio at the same time. The two women behind the war of conquest were short- and short-fought, from forcing Picasso to choose one side to the two tearing and beating each other. Picasso, on the other hand, watched the show from the sidelines.
As a result of the two lovers' face-to-face beating, Picasso both disliked them and found a new love. This new lover is the only Franços who does not listen to Picasso and dares to take revenge on Picasso.
After breaking up with Picasso, Dora was mentally abnormal. Mary, on the other hand, has been in contact with Picasso ever since, but only to her daughter.
Picasso was proud of his youthful beauty and cultural flavour, and he always wanted to show off. Mary was the mother of the child after all, and she was still dead set on him, so he chose Dora. He asked Dora to come out to dinner, and Dora thought that Picasso missed himself, and rushed over to see that The New Joy was on the side, and he had come to show off the New Joy. After showing off a few times, Franços saw through Picasso's intentions and deliberately embarrassed Picasso. In order to save face, Picasso asked Dora to come out and give her a gift, and Dora thought he had come to reconcile, and when he called, it was a silver ring with the words "Dedicated to Dora", and he was happy, and he put it on his hand, "Oops" Scratched his hand, and in turn, there was a thorn in the ring.
Dora finally went to a mental hospital. After staying for a while, when I was discharged from the hospital, I said a word: After Picasso, I only have God. Then he converted to Jesus.
In his later years, Picasso fell in love with Chinese ink painting and immersed himself in research. Once, he sneaked up to a ceramic shop to look at Chinese paintings on ceramics, and a young clerk came over and smiled sweetly. The sweet-smiling girl, named Jacqueline Locke, later became Picasso's second wife.
At that time, Picasso was 72 years old, and he still hooked up with Jaegüelline, who was in his twenties, and took away 32-year-old Franços.
Jacqueline comes from the bottom of society, fell out with her ex-husband after having a daughter, separated, worked in a ceramics shop, and met Picasso, a rich old man. Hearing Picasso's name, she was like Picasso's predecessors, her eyes glowing and her heart beating wildly. She was really tired of the poor and precarious working life, and now an old man who could take her across classes like a somersault cloud appeared, no matter how thick the skin on his face was and how many folds there were, she decided to seize the opportunity.
When Picasso's ex-wife died at the age of 74, Jacqueline was lucky enough to become his second wife before he was bored. No matter how much Picasso picked up the flowers and weeds, Jacqueline didn't care. Twenty years later, Jacqueline inherited Picasso's vast inheritance.
However, after surviving Picasso's last 20 years of infidelity, Jagueline's ego was also hollowed out by Picasso. After Picasso's death, she committed suicide.
Picasso is undoubtedly very powerful, one of the few figures in the world of painting, and the first painter ever to see his work collected in the Louvre in his lifetime. So, he has the capital to always find young women as lovers, and he probably has to find a younger lover every 8-10 years, to replace the old woman, and he demands that these women obey him. In order not to be dumped, these women will please him and listen to him, and over time, the ego of these women will be hollowed out, and after leaving him, there will be mental problems.
Of course, these women have a huge problem, although the appearance is high, but the wisdom is not enough, the soul is very empty, not enough to resist the mental control and pressure of powerful people.
Many women want to find a strong man to protect themselves, in fact, if the woman does not have enough wisdom and strength to control this man, then the woman herself will first become the object of bullying by this powerful man, rather than his protection object. You will lose yourself in bullying and be controlled. Picasso's lovers, around Picasso, were so weak that they eventually lost themselves.
Author: Wei Feihong: Contributor, screenwriter. In the colorful world, figure out the yardstick behind the success or failure of life, and show you.