Picasso had always impressed me,
not only of his paintings, which I admit I am not a huge fan of all of them but because of his freedom and courage of expressing himself and his continuous efforts producing amazing arts nonstop until the last days of his life...
In this book, there are rumors of him mistreating his women and other negative personality traits. A lot of these I didn't include in my summary as it seems subjective and not found on facts.Hence, the summary below reflects on his accomplishments and few hints to learn how he was able to achieve greatness.
Before we start, let us clear the issue of the number of wives Picasso had. Picasso had only two wives (Olga and Jacqueline) and four children by three women. He befriended other women though and hence the confusion, this page goes into details regarding this aspect of Picasso's life:
(http://www.sapergalleries.com/PicassoWomen.html)