In the summer of 1952 he met Jacqueline Roque (1927-86), an attractive young woman who was working at Madoura as a sales assistant, having left her husband—a colonial official in Ouagadougou in Central Africa—and taken up residence with her daughter Cathy in nearby Golfe-Juan. Forty-five years Picasso’s junior, she shared his short, stocky build and his large and brilliant dark eyes. By this time artist’s relationship with Françoise Gilot was deteriorating severely, and Jacqueline quickly replaced her in his affections, becoming his lover, muse and eventually his wife—the last great female presence in Picasso’s life and the subject of innumerable paintings and prints produced in the 1950s and 1960s.