Pablo Picasso is generally considered one of the best and most influential artists of the modernist era and perhaps of all time. His personal life was anything but stable, marked by a vast libido that led him to have several wives and mistresses, constantly seeking new women while he lost interest in his former lovers. This feminist aspect of her personality and the tumultuous periods of her life that resulted had a great effect on her art. Many of his works have a sexual component, such as nudity, phallic and vaginal images, and depictions of sexual acts. Furthermore, it becomes clear that Picasso dehumanized women in his art, transforming them into sexual objects rather than human beings. The multiple “periods” which divide his artistic life are often the direct consequence of his sexual life. It is important to realize Picasso's sexuality by looking at one of his works to understand it better. Accordingly, we will examine both sexual imagery in Picasso's works and in his personal life, and study their relationships. At the age of 46, Picasso began an affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was 17 at the age of 46. time. Picasso became fascinated with Walter and eventually separated from his first wife because of this affair. Although he had other mistresses, wives, and lovers throughout his life, he continued to adore her for most of his life. His experiences with her had a profound influence on some of his works. He used some of his most erotic works to seduce Walter and painted some of his most sexual images with her as the subject. The most famous of these works is Le Rêve, a depiction of a scantily clad Marie-Thérèse Walter sleeping on a chair with...... middle of paper ......008. The tearing was heard around the world. LA Times, October 12, 2008 |, 2008, sec Entertainment. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/12/entertainment/ca-le-reve12. Mallen, Enrique. 1954 biography. in Picasso Project Online [online database]. 2010 [cited on 05/10/2010]. Available at http://picasso.tamu.edu/index.php?view=BioIndex&year=1954.Munson, Steven C. 1999. Sex, Death and Picasso. Comment 108, (1) (July): 70, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=2013701&site=ehost-live&scope=site.Picasso, Pablo. . Pain, 1903, http://www.metmuseum.org/Imageshare/ma/regular/DT7881.jpg.Picasso, Pablo. 2001. Picasso erotic, ed. Jean Clair. London: Prestel.Riding, Alan. 2001. ARTS ABROAD; Picasso's carnival. New York Times (03/22): 1, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=28931334&site=ehost-live&scope=site.