Pablo Picasso roared with triumphant laughter. "I promised to have it done without any newsmen around, and for once I won," he said. Not until last week did it come out that on March 2 in the Riviera town of Vallauris the 79-year-old master had secretly married Jacqueline Roque, 35, his brown-haired longtime model.
Jacqueline is the latest of many women in Picasso's life, though he married only one other. The ladies often modeled for him, and a gallery of their portraits that appeared last week in Paris-Presse is a sampler of his painting. The first portrait was of wistful Fernande...
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