>>2595488Picasso was notoriously shitty to women. He was a huge misogynist who bullied all of the women in his life and made several of his partners and family members suicidal.
He was 61 years old and his mistress was only 21 when he told her "Women are machines for suffering. For me, there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats."
His own granddaughter was the first person in his family to come forward about how
abusive he was in her memoir.
"No one in my family ever managed to escape from the stranglehold of this genius. He needed blood to sign each of his paintings: my father’s blood, my brother’s, my mother’s, my grandmother’s, and mine. He needed the blood of those who loved him."
And she said this about the women in his life: "He submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, and crushed them onto his canvas. After he had spent many nights extracting their essence, once they were bled dry, he would dispose of them."