The Murphy’s regular companions that summer were Picasso and his first wife, Olga; their young son, Paolo; and Picasso’s elderly mother, Señora Maria Ruiz. They had come down to visit the Murphys at the Hôtel du Cap and had liked the region so much that they took a villa in nearby Antilles. Olga had been a deuxième ballerina in the Diaghilev company. She was a pretty girl with a button mouth and a thin nose, who agreed with everything prosaic—qualities that Picasso appeared to relish at the time. (Later, when he had left her, she followed him around Paris for three days with a revolver; eventually she went mad.) Señora Ruiz spoke no French at all, only Spanish, but the Murphys got on splendidly with her.
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