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　　A lover of Pablo Picasso is selling 20 sketches he gave her more than 50 years ago, showing the tender side of an artist often accused of treating women badly. 　　"I have a mission -- rehabilitating Pablo," Genevieve Laporte, 79, told Reuters in an interview before the sketches go up for auction in Paris Monday. Auction house Artcurial puts their value at about 2 million euros ($2.44 million). 　　Laporte has also written a book about her love affair with Picasso and wants to show the world a hidden side of the Spanish artist, often described as "arrogant and scornful" with women. 　　Laporte and Picasso were lovers when she was in her mid-20s although he was nearly 50 years older than her. Most of the drawings are of Laporte during a holiday they took in Saint Tropez on France's Mediterranean coast in 1951.