7. Picasso – Nude Woman with a Necklace
The artist was famous for driving his lovers to despair, ‘Women are machines for suffering,” Picasso told his mistress Françoise Gilot in 1943. Indeed, as they embarked on their nine-year affair, the 61-year-old artist warned the 21-year-old student: “For me there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats”. No one used and abused his women quite like the greatest artist of the 20th century, Picasso at once objectifies and eviscerates his women in the service of his art, and in this case, further debases the figure by having her urinate.