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Picasso's Seated Bather

Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. Picasso began painting at the age of 10. Picasso was a known artist and greatly known for his abstract paintings.

Pablo Picasso's painting of the Seated Bather was a portrait of his first wife Olga Khokhlova. In the first painting of his wife it showed a beautiful woman sitting on an embroidered arm chair, but after years of marriage Picasso seen his wife in a different way. In his portrait of her as the Seated Bather it showed her as a frigid cold woman with jagged teeth and a bony thin body. This portrait was made to show the tension he experienced in his marriage.

"Picasso had two wives and many mistresses, all of whom had a profound effect on the work he...