Commonly known facts about Picasso: cubism, Guernica and the blue period. (Slightly) lesser known Picasso fact: he went through ladies as quickly as he did paint. And he frequently turned his mistresses into muses. One of his longest running affairs started with a barely legal French girl when he was 46. Right now, the Gagosian

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