The painter has been called out as a misogynist but Oliver Widmaier Picasso says his numerous lovers knew his nature
Pablo Picasso, who created some of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, was also a notorious womaniser and once said that “there are only two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats”. Viewed through a 21st-century lens, he has been seen as a misogynist and monstrous.