Picasso Ex-Lover Sells Up

On June 27, Genevieve Laporte will sell 20 of Picasso's sketches in Paris worth around $2 million at the Hotel Dassault in Paris. Laporte met Picasso when she was 17 and interviewed him for the school newspaper sipping hot chocolate whilst Picasso recommended books. It was innocent - at least on her side.The two had their on-and-off affair when Picasso was with painter Francoise Gilot. The mother of two of his children, Gilot was another rare woman with the guts to dump Picasso instead of suffering. Picasso took a break from Gilot in the summer of 1951 to vacation in Saint Tropez with Laporte, poet Paul Eluard and his wife, Dominique. Laporte remembers it as a golden time. For the full story - click the title Irish Art