Pablo Picasso marries his model Jacqueline Rocque in 1961.
Picasso met Jacqueline Roque at the Madoura Pottery in 1953, where he was working on his ceramics. Following her divorce, she married Picasso for the second time in 1961, when he was 79 and she was 34. Picasso was strongly influenced by Roque, making more works based on her than any other woman in his life—in one year, he painted almost 70 portraits of her. For the last 17 years of his life, Jacqueline was the only lady he painted. Roque shot herself at the mansion on the French Riviera where she had resided with Picasso until his death in 1986.
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