Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso

No account remains of that time; evidence of her stay consists only of the hospital bill, paid by Picasso. Picasso is experimenting with flatness (as he began to do with his discovery of cubism) but here, the woman is both integrated and vividly the subject. The truth, at least as far as Jacqueline was concerned, was that there 233was no hospital nor even a doctor in the vicinity and, though they kept this strictly to themselves, Picasso had been showing one or two signs of minor heart disease. Now, finally, Dora (aged sixty-two) would no longer be under his eye.