A listener note, this episode contains reference to suicide, child sexual abuse and domestic violence.

Welcome to Legacy and the final part of our series on Pablo Picasso.

When we left you at the end of episode three, it's 1961, Picasso has just

married his second wife, Jacqueline Roque. She is 34 and he is 79. His legacy as an artist is assured.

Works such as La Vie, Le Des Moiselle Davignon, and most famously, Gernica, have brought him

fame across the globe. He's a genuine celebrity.

But there is a time bomb ticking away in the background. Francoise Gio, the woman with whom he'd lived

for a decade and had two children, has decided to write a memoir. When Life with Picasso is published

in 1964, his controlling and manipulative character,

particularly his treatment of women, is revealed to the world.

Life with Picasso by Francois Gilles-Gi-Loh.

He was rather fond of saying,

For me, there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and dormats.

And whenever he thought I might be feeling too much like

a goddess, he did his best to turn me into a doormat. One day when I went to see him, we were

looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that slanted in through one of the high windows.

He said to me, nobody has any real importance for me. As far as I'm concerned, other people

are like those little grains of dust floating in the sunlight. It only takes a push of the broom,

and out they go. I told him I had often noticed in his dealings with others that he considered

the rest of the world only little grains of dust. But I said, as it happened, I was a little

grain of dust who was gifted with autonomous movement and who didn't, therefore, need any broom.

I could go out by myself. And I did. I didn't return for three months. It wasn't that I didn't

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