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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... better English than most of us native English speakers can usually muster. Once I got to know her, I asked her about this, and she replied that she has written all her books, of which there are now a dozen, in English because she ...
... better English than most of us native English speakers can usually muster. Once I got to know her, I asked her about this, and she replied that she has written all her books, of which there are now a dozen, in English because she ...
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... better understand who she was. But Gilot also chronicles the abuse and insults she underwent as she struggled to overcome the demons that seemed to render Picasso incapable of sustaining lasting human relationships. Picasso, forty years ...
... better understand who she was. But Gilot also chronicles the abuse and insults she underwent as she struggled to overcome the demons that seemed to render Picasso incapable of sustaining lasting human relationships. Picasso, forty years ...
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... better.” “You leave Inês where she is.” Picasso said. “She's got her own work to do.” He guided me into the bathroom and carefully dried my hair for me. Of course, Picasso didn't have a situation like that handed to him every time. He ...
... better.” “You leave Inês where she is.” Picasso said. “She's got her own work to do.” He guided me into the bathroom and carefully dried my hair for me. Of course, Picasso didn't have a situation like that handed to him every time. He ...
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... better hold on to you,” he said. “I wouldn't like to have you fall out and give the house a bad name.” It had grown warmer in the last few days and he was wearing what seemed to be his usual warm-weather outfit for receiving his friends ...
... better hold on to you,” he said. “I wouldn't like to have you fall out and give the house a bad name.” It had grown warmer in the last few days and he was wearing what seemed to be his usual warm-weather outfit for receiving his friends ...
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... better put on some lead-soled shoes and get down to earth. Otherwise you're in for a rude awakening.” That awakening came when I decided to become a painter. For the first time I got a sense of my own limitations. In my studies, even in ...
... better put on some lead-soled shoes and get down to earth. Otherwise you're in for a rude awakening.” That awakening came when I decided to become a painter. For the first time I got a sense of my own limitations. In my studies, even in ...
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