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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... Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art (1990), and, with Lisa Alther, About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter (2016). Her art is in the collections of among other museums, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ...
... Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art (1990), and, with Lisa Alther, About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter (2016). Her art is in the collections of among other museums, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ...
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... Matisse. A northerner and former law student like herself. Matisse possessed a style and temperament more akin to her own, with his use of complimentary and contrasting color schemes to define space and with his search for harmony—in ...
... Matisse. A northerner and former law student like herself. Matisse possessed a style and temperament more akin to her own, with his use of complimentary and contrasting color schemes to define space and with his search for harmony—in ...
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... along with accounts of their interactions with Picasso and with each other. Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Paul Éluard, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, and others emerge from the pages with all their INTRODUCTION.
... along with accounts of their interactions with Picasso and with each other. Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Paul Éluard, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, and others emerge from the pages with all their INTRODUCTION.
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... Matisse. Gilot went on to marry twice. Her first husband was the French painter Luc Simon, with whom she had a daughter, Aurélia, who graduated from Harvard with a degree in museum studies and who now manages Gilot's ar. chives. Claude ...
... Matisse. Gilot went on to marry twice. Her first husband was the French painter Luc Simon, with whom she had a daughter, Aurélia, who graduated from Harvard with a degree in museum studies and who now manages Gilot's ar. chives. Claude ...
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... Matisse shone among the sculptures. I couldn't resist saying, “Oh, what a beautiful Matisse!” Sabartés turned and said austerely, “Here there is only Picasso.” By another little winding staircase, on the far side of the room, we climbed ...
... Matisse shone among the sculptures. I couldn't resist saying, “Oh, what a beautiful Matisse!” Sabartés turned and said austerely, “Here there is only Picasso.” By another little winding staircase, on the far side of the room, we climbed ...
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