Welcome back to Legacy for the third part of our series on Picasso,

undeniably a great artist, but a man with a reputation tarnished by the standards of today.

We left you last time in the 1930s, and Picasso has achieved fame and fortune, but his

personal life is getting complicated, to say the least, his wife leaving him after discovering

an affair with a younger woman, Marie-Terez-Valterre, who Picasso meets when she's just 17.

This is far from the end of the story of Picasso's complicated personal life, which will

return to you later, but let's rewind a little as we turn to another subject inextricably

linked with the Picasso story, the story of war.

Picasso is still making his way as an artist when the First World War breaks out in 1914.

Because he's Spanish, he isn't called up.

But many of his fellow artists in Paris are, including his friend and Cubism collaborator, George Brac.

I drove him and André de Ré to the station, Cicasseau.

And I never saw them again.

This isn't true in the literal sense.

Both Prach and Dren survived the Great War, but Brac is badly wounded, and their personal

connection is never the same again.

The war effectively pauses the Cubism movement, and, after the armistice, many of the artists

involved, including Picasso, changed style in a movement called Return to Order.

The works are calmer, more realistic, and less avant-garde.

As we've already heard, post-war, Picasso's career goes from strength to strength.

But two decades later, conflict is about to have a huge impact on Picasso's work.

He may have been living in Paris since the turn of the century,

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