Maya au bateau (Maya with boat) 1938 private collection Picasso had four children with his numerous wives and girlfriends. Maya was his first daughter by Marie-Thérèse Walter, a young woman he met by chance outside the Galeries Lafayette store in 1927. Picasso was 45; Marie-Thérèse was 17. Guitare à la main blanche (Guitar with white hand) 1927. Private collection Picasso disguised his new mistress and model in such paintings as the above, where Marie-Thérèse Walter's initials appear on the guitar. Later she appeared in her full beauty: Portrait of Marie-Thérèse 1935 Pencil. Private collection Her gymnastic body was sometimes transformed into rocks and boulders in beach scenes by Picasso, while her distinctive 'Greek' profile and blonde youth is recognizable in several works: Portrait de Marie-Thérèse 1937 oil and pencil When Maya's imminent birth was discovered by Olga, Picasso's Russian ballet dancer wife, the turmoil caused led to their separation. Maya beca...