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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... Rue des Grands-Augustins on the Left Bank, not far from Notre Dame. When we got there that evening and were seated, I saw Picasso for the first time. He was at the next table with a group of friends: a man, whom I didn't recognize, and ...
... Rue des Grands-Augustins on the Left Bank, not far from Notre Dame. When we got there that evening and were seated, I saw Picasso for the first time. He was at the next table with a group of friends: a man, whom I didn't recognize, and ...
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... Rue des Grands-Augustins and knocked on the door of Picasso's apartment. After a short wait it was opened about three or four inches, to reveal the long, thin nose of his secretary, Jaime Sabartés. We had never seen him before but we ...
... Rue des Grands-Augustins and knocked on the door of Picasso's apartment. After a short wait it was opened about three or four inches, to reveal the long, thin nose of his secretary, Jaime Sabartés. We had never seen him before but we ...
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... Rue des Grands-Augustins. A few days after that first visit I dropped in at the gallery where Geneviève and I were having our exhibition. The woman who ran it told me excitedly that a little earlier a short man with piercing dark eyes ...
... Rue des Grands-Augustins. A few days after that first visit I dropped in at the gallery where Geneviève and I were having our exhibition. The woman who ran it told me excitedly that a little earlier a short man with piercing dark eyes ...
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... Rue des Grands-Augustins feeling very buoyant, impatient to get back to my studio and go to work. So AFTER THAT second visit, Geneviève went back to the Midi. I wanted to return to the Rue des Grands-Augustins by myself but I felt it ...
... Rue des Grands-Augustins feeling very buoyant, impatient to get back to my studio and go to work. So AFTER THAT second visit, Geneviève went back to the Midi. I wanted to return to the Rue des Grands-Augustins by myself but I felt it ...
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... Rue des Grands-Augustins. Most of the people I saw there were people who came nearly every day. If Picasso felt like showing them some paintings, they would look at them. If he didn't they would just sit around, not saying very much ...
... Rue des Grands-Augustins. Most of the people I saw there were people who came nearly every day. If Picasso felt like showing them some paintings, they would look at them. If he didn't they would just sit around, not saying very much ...
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