Three nudes depicting Pablo Picasso's lover are going on display together for the first time in 85 years. A new show at Tate Modern will see the works reunited, having last been shown alongside each other in , the year they were painted. Picasso created the nudes, featuring Marie-Therese Walter, in five days. He had begun the affair with the woman, who was 28 years his junior, five years previously but it was kept a secret as he was married. It was the first the world knew of the blonde woman in his life. She had been 17 when they met, while the artist was 45 and living with wife Olga Khokhlova. Picasso and Walter went on to have a daughter together in September

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By , Pablo Picasso was already the most famous artist in the world. Picasso had a wife, a son and a mistress. The wife, Russian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova , aged 41, had given up dancing after an ankle injury to devote herself to home-making. Their son Paulo was 11 years old and already taller than his 5ft 3in father. From the outside, the Picassos looked like a happy, bourgeois family.