Pablo picasso children paloma 2015

What's in a name? "With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good." With a name like Picasso, it had damned well better be good. It would be easy to dismiss the gemstone art of Paloma Picasso by suggesting that she is simply trading on her father's name.

Pablo picassos life

And, there's no doubt that simple name recognition has played a part in the initial rise to fame of Pablo Picasso's youngest child, also the daughter of the painter and writer, Françoise Gilot. Her parents were never married.

Her mother was Picasso's second mistress following Dora Maar in (there were at least one or two more). Both women were artists. Francoise was the mother of film director, Claude Picasso, born in Paloma also had a half-brother, Paulo, born in and a half-sister, Maya, born in Just for the record, Picasso also had two wives, Olga Khokhlova, and Jacqueline Roque.

Thanks to her father's unabashed philandering, Paloma's family tree resembles a honeysuckle vine.