
Picasso was born in Spain, a son of a painter and teacher of art, astonishingly prolific moving on to Paris, as a theater designer, draftsman and sculptor, the greatest printmaker of the 20th Century, a work-a-ho-lic, with an over-active libido,
his insatiable appetite for women, work and woe, left his heart one-dimensional, preferring ownership rather than loving; he owned for a short time a model, a dancer, a photographer, a journalist, and a ceramist, and a child of 17 not quite ripe,
His Blue Period was 1901-1904
his Rose Period 1905-1907
His African influenced period 1908-1909,
his Analytic Cubism period was 1909-1912
his Synthetic Cubism 1912-1919
tired and old, he began molding clay and a potter by the name of Jacqueline, whom he finally wed in1961 when he was 79, entertaining friends at dinner in 1973, with these last words, he pleaded,
"Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more."
She shot herself in 1986, probably thinking of him.