# Picasso marries Jacqueline Roque; later public accounts of control remain bounded to documented acts

Date: 1961

## The fact

On 2 March 1961 [Picasso](/people/pablo-picasso) married Jacqueline Roque, a documented legal act. Later public biographies discuss control and isolation as controversies. This Fact stores the marriage and the existence of that public controversy, not gossip scenes, and not her 1986 death as his deed.

## Context

User rule again: dated legal/public acts only. 1961 qualifies. 1986 does not as his action. Gilot 1964 is the clearer speech-hindrance paper.

Pablo Picasso is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Musée Picasso Paris chronology and Britannica independently date the 1961 marriage.

Official or archival record: Musée Picasso Paris (https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en; Musée national Picasso-Paris).

## Significance

Gendered-legal path. High confidence on 2 March 1961; medium on later controversy size.

A 1961 certificate is not a 1953 [Stalin](/people/joseph-stalin) head.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2 March 1961 marriage to Jacqueline Roque; later public controversy exists in biographies. Not established: private scenes as Facts, or 1986 as his act.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Pablo Picasso: https://factrail.ai/people/pablo-picasso

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pablo-Picasso

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pic-jacqueline-1961