Life with PicassoNew York Review of Books, 11 juin 2019 - 384 pages Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains “one of the most illuminating [books] we’ve had on the mind and spirit of Picasso”—and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists (Los Angeles Times). Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become. Life with Picasso is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career. |
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... Gertrude Stein. One spring morning he said to me, “We're going to see Gertrude this week. That will amuse you. Besides, I have a lot of confidence in her judgment. If she approves of you, that will reinforce whatever good opinion I ...
... Gertrude Stein. One spring morning he said to me, “We're going to see Gertrude this week. That will amuse you. Besides, I have a lot of confidence in her judgment. If she approves of you, that will reinforce whatever good opinion I ...
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... Gertrude Stein's first questions, which were a little sharp and sometimes obvious. It was quite clear that she was asking herself, What's going on between Pablo and this girl? And first in English and then in French—not very good French ...
... Gertrude Stein's first questions, which were a little sharp and sometimes obvious. It was quite clear that she was asking herself, What's going on between Pablo and this girl? And first in English and then in French—not very good French ...
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... Gertrude Stein. Perhaps they didn't seem respectful enough. I admired Gertrude Stein, but I could see no reason to play up to her. And so whenever I said anything displeasing to Alice Toklas, she would dart another plate of cakes at me ...
... Gertrude Stein. Perhaps they didn't seem respectful enough. I admired Gertrude Stein, but I could see no reason to play up to her. And so whenever I said anything displeasing to Alice Toklas, she would dart another plate of cakes at me ...
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... Gertrude Stein occasionally in the Rue de Buci, doing a bit of marketing around noontime. She seemed always to be wearing the same costume, covered by a cape, that I had seen her wear the day Pablo and I called on her. She always urged ...
... Gertrude Stein occasionally in the Rue de Buci, doing a bit of marketing around noontime. She seemed always to be wearing the same costume, covered by a cape, that I had seen her wear the day Pablo and I called on her. She always urged ...
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