Gertrude's Relationship With Pablo Picasso

What I enjoy about this statement in the beginning of the article is that you are given a view of what type of relationship Gertrude had with Pablo early in his career and one can start to speculate as to why he put a mask on her. For Picasso, women were either sexual objects or goddesses, but Gertrude was neither. Gertrude was an actual person that did not fit into his ideas of femininity, because he respected her. Furthermore, Gertrude played both feminine and masculine roles in the life of Picasso. On one end, she was a nurturant mother figure who he was able to disclose anything that was troubling him and giving advice on his work. In the same time, occupying the role of his art dealer when he was in need of money, I see as masculine role