18 Facts About Jacqueline Roque

Jacqueline Picasso or Jacqueline Roque was the muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso.

Jacqueline Roque's mother raised her in cramped concierge's quarters near the Champs Elysees, while working long hours as a seamstress.

In 1946, Jacqueline Roque married Andre Hutin, an engineer, with whom she had a daughter, Catherine Hutin-Blay.

The young family moved to Africa, where Hutin worked, but four years later Jacqueline Roque divorced Hutin and returned to France with Cathy in 1952.

Jacqueline Roque settled down on the French Riviera and took a job at her cousin's shop, the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris.

Jacqueline Roque romanced her by drawing a dove on her house in chalk and bringing her one rose a day until she agreed to date him.

Gilot recalled that when she visited him in July 1954, Picasso continued to live alone, but Jacqueline Roque visited him almost every day.

Jacqueline Roque had been living with her daughter Cathy at a villa at Golfe-Juan named Le Ziquet.

Two nights later, Picasso and Jacqueline Roque had a huge argument.

Jacqueline Roque returned that evening but the argument created a rift between them.

In October 1954, Picasso and Jacqueline Roque began to live together, when she was aged 27 and he was 72.

Jacqueline Roque's image began to appear in Picasso's paintings in 1954.

On 28 December 1955, he created Jacqueline Roque with a scarf, a lino cut of Jacqueline Roque as "Lola de Valence", which was a reference to Edouard Manet's 1862 painting of the Spanish dancer.

Jacqueline Roque was devoted to Picasso throughout their marriage and when he died in 1973, she was deeply affected by grief.

Jacqueline Roque barred Picasso's grandson Pablito Picasso from attending the service.

Jacqueline Roque had been frequenting Picasso's grave on the eighth of every month and said that he wanted her to join him.

Jacqueline Roque shot herself on 15 October 1986 in their Mougins home, the chateau where they had spent their married life together; she was 59 years old.

Jacqueline Roque was buried with her husband on the terrace outside the Chateau of Vauvenargues.