Monday - June 15, 2009

Pablo Picasso family reignites ‘wicked stepmother’ feud. Ah the bizarre world of art. Ar

Yeah I guess it technically is that.
I always thought Picasso was a bit weird and can’t quite grasp what makes him “a great artist.” As opposed to a painter. Whatever ..
Apparently he wasn’t alone among his family and others close by who were bizarre.  And imagine drinking bleach to commit suicide.

By, Matthew Campbell
The Sunday Times

The tragic legacy of one of the greatest figures in 20th-century art will be highlighted this week in a Paris court where Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter is defending the name of her brother, who killed himself by drinking bleach.

Marina Picasso is suing Pepita Dupont, an author, for claiming that her brother Pablito once tried to burgle his grandfather’s home under the influence of drugs. The case is the fourth by Picasso relatives against Dupont and the latest episode in decades of feuds and legal wrangling over the painter’s legacy.

Dupont’s The Truth About Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso challenges the “wicked stepmother” image that has clung to Jacqueline, the painter’s last wife, since she prevented Picasso’s children and grandchildren from attending his funeral in 1973.

Pablito drank a bottle of bleach the next day and had an agonising death. Marina, whose own book about Picasso portrayed the artist as a monster “who had to destroy everything that got in the way of his creation”, blames Jacqueline for the death. Dupont said: “It’s very sad that he killed himself, but Pablito’s depression was not just because he could not see his grandfather.”

Pablito was not the only victim among the heirs of the artist: Jacqueline, who shared the last 20 years of Picasso’s life, shot herself in the head in 1986; Marie-Thérèse Walter, one of his muses from the 1920s, hanged herself in 1977.

Marina, 58, spent 14 years in psychoanalysis, marked by uncontrollable tears and fainting fits. She fell out with other heirs of the artist, accusing them of greed and “bad taste” in selling the family name to Citroën for its people carrier.

Contrary to the stepchildren’s account of Jacqueline “kidnapping” a frail Picasso to keep him away from them, Dupont claims she loved them as her own. Relations soured only when Claude and Paloma, Picasso’s children by Françoise Gilot, whom he never married, took him to court to be recognised as legitimate heirs.

“She was simply following Picasso’s instructions when she ordered them not to come to the funeral,” said Dupont.

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