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©Pablo Picasso paintings 1940-1949

During the Second World War, Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. Picasso's artistic style did not fit the Nazi ideal of art, so he did not exhibit during this time. He was often harassed by the Gestapo. During one search of his apartment, an officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. "Did you do that?" the German asked Picasso. "No," he replied, "You did".
In 1944, after the liberation of Paris, Picasso, then 63 years old, began a romantic relationship with a young art student named Françoise Gilot. She was 40 years younger than he was. Picasso grew tired of his mistress Dora Maar; Picasso and Gilot began to live together. Eventually they had two children: Claude, born in 1947 and Paloma, born in 1949. In her 1964 book Life with Picasso, Gilot describes his abusive treatment and myriad infidelities which led her to leave him, taking the children with her. This was a severe blow to Picasso.

Woman styling her hair 1940	Female bust. Portrait de Dora Maar 1941	Female nude 1941	Portrait of Nusch Eluard 1941	Seated Dora Maar 1941
Seated woman 1941	Seated woman on wooden chair 1941	Seated woman with spelling book 1941	Woman in an armchair 1941	Woman in striped armchair 1941
Woman sitting in an armchair 1941	Woman sitting in an armchair 1941	Woman sitting in an armchair 1941	Boy with a langosta 1941	Bull's head on the table 1942
Bust of a woman 1942	Portrait of woman. Dora Maar 1942	Seated Woman with Fish 1942	Still life with Guitar 1942	Still life with skull of ox 1942
The serenade 1942	A child with pigeons 1943	Bust of woman 1943	Firsts steps 1943	Head of woman 1943

Portrait of D. M. 1943	Skull, urchins and lamp on a table 1943	Square du Vert-Galant 1943	The Buffet 'Catalan' 1943	The buffet of 'Catalan' 1943
Vase with flowers 1943	Vase with flowers 1943	Woman in green 1943	Woman with hat 1943	Glass and pitcher 1944
Still life with lamp 1944	Tomato plant 1944	Woman washing her feet 1944	Woman with brooch 1944	Bull, plate I 1945
Bull, plate II 1945	Bull, plate III 1945	Bull, plate IV 1945	Bull, plate V 1945	Bull, plate VI 1945
Bull, plate VII 1945	Child with flower 1945	Crane and pitcher 1945	Figure 1945	Jug, candle and enamel pan 1945

Leeks, fish head, skull and pitcher 1945	Still Life with Flowers and Lemons 1941	Seated woman with flat hat 1945	Skull and leeks 1945	The mass grave 1945
Bull, plate IX 1946	Bull, plate VIII 1946	Bull, plate X 1946	Bull, plate XI 1946	Bull, study 1946
Composition 1946	Crane, book and oil lamp 1946	Head of a woman with green curls 1946	Lust for life. Pastorale 1946	Owl on a chair and sea urchins 1946
Standing woman 1946	Still life with skull on an armchair 1946	Two nude women 1946	Ulysses and sirens 1946	Cock and knife 1947

Head of a Girl 1947	Pigeon 1947	Still life 1947	Still life on a table 1947	Claude in the arms of his mother 1948
Claude with a ball 1948	The kitchen 1948	The kitchen 1948	Woman sitting in an armchair 1948	Claude, two years old, and his hobby horse 1949
Head of Faun 1949	Seated Francoise with blue dress 1949	Woman sitting in an armchair 1949	Woman with Hat Seated in an Armchair 1941-1942	Bust of a Woman 1944