Talk:Pablo Picasso

Suicides of his partners

'Of the several important women in his life, two – lover Marie-Thèrése Walter and his second wife Jacqueline Roque – died by suicide.'

This seems misleading, especially as it comes immediately after a long paragraph of (rather vague and non-specific) claims to the effect that Picasso mistreated his partners. The impression it creates is that he drove these women to suicide while they were in their respective relationships with him. In fact, both of them committed suicide years after his 1973 death (four in Walter's case and thirteen in Roque's). Walter in particular had rejected his marriage proposal in 1955, almost two decades before his death, and he hadn't been seeing her since then (not to mention that their relationship had ended in 1940). To suggest that their suicides were still somehow his fault after all these years, from beyond the grave, seems ... questionable, to say the least. On top of it all, both of them are reported to have been inclined towards suicide by their missing Picasso too much after his death - surely he can't be blamed for not being immortal! (Not to mention that the premise is dubious, given that one managed to live for thirteen years without him, and the other - for 22 without contact and for 37 if you only count the actual relationship.) And it seems even weirder to list Pablito's suicide after Picasso's funeral as another death that Picasso was responsible for in view of the surrounding circumstances that the article itself points out. 62.73.69.121 (talk) 21:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

I had similar thoughts about the misleading quality of the line you quote, though my qualm was mainly a result of knowing that Roque suicided more than 13 years after Picasso’s death. You point out more problems than I was aware of. This should be addressed and redone to at least point out the context. Recently I heard an art teacher telling one of her students that “they don’t talk about the fact that Jackson Pollock had killed a woman in an auto accident”, neglecting to mention that that same auto accident killed him as well. Something similar seems to be occurring here as well. 2600:6C44:237F:884A:1C0F:76A3:6E8C:C60A (talk) 02:53, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 July 2024

Pablo Picasso was not of Romani descent. Delete "French people of Romani descent", "Spanish people of Romani descent" in categories box. 神奇帽子 (talk) 07:40, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done 💜  melecie  talk - 08:18, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

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