Geneviève Laporte
Genevieve Laporte was Pablo Picasso's former lover. She is perhaps most famous for auctioning off twenty works, many with her as a subject, that were bestowed upon her during a secret love affair with Picasso in the 1950's. Reportedly, she met the artist as a teenager during World War II, finding common ground in poetry. She was in her mid-twenties when the affair began in 1951, though Picasso was nearly fifty years older than his French model. Some art historians and museums carrying Picasso's work have dubbed the paintings he made around that time the 'Genevieve Period', as many of them feature symbolic tributes to his belle as well as dedications "To Genevieve". In June 2005, she auctioned off the drawings Picasso made of her.
Laporte wrote 16 books. About Picasso : - Si tard le soir le soleil brille (1973),
traduction anglaise :Sunshine at midnight (1974),
- Un amour secret de Picasso (1999),
- Du petit Pablo au grand Picasso (2003),
- Le grand Picasso (2004)
Her last book is "du petit Wolfgang au grand Mozart" (2006).