Pablo Picasso - Portrait de Dora Maar, 1937
“Picasso’s feelings for women were extremely intense. He could not function without a woman around. Dora Maar, his mistress from 1936 to 1944, said when women in Picasso’s life changed, everything changed: the style of painting changed, the band of friends changed, the poet - he always had a poet around - the house and the dog all changed.” —- Picasso biographer John Richardson