Word: shepherdessâ
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...Pictures are made the way the prince gets children," Picasso remarked a little later, "with the shepherdess." In Marie-Thérèse, he found a shepherdess???a placid, ill-educated and wholly compliant blond, who had never heard of him or his work, and offered nothing that even Picasso's egotism could interpret as competition. She became an oasis of sexual comfort. His images of Marie-Thérèse reading, sleeping, contemplating her face in a mirror or posing (in the Vollard suite of etchings) for the Mediterranean artist-god, Picasso himself, have an extraordinarily inward quality, vegetative and abandoned...
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