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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... called Le Catalan and was in the 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 ...
... called Le Catalan and was in the 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 ...
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... called Fontës, near Montpellier, which was then in the Free Zone—not occupied by the Germans —to spend my vacation with Geneviève. While I was there, I passed through one of those crises young people sometimes experience in the process ...
... called Fontës, near Montpellier, which was then in the Free Zone—not occupied by the Germans —to spend my vacation with Geneviève. While I was there, I passed through one of those crises young people sometimes experience in the process ...
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... called out, “Don't worry about that. In three months' time, you may know Picasso.” He was right, almost to the day. My problems with painting weren't my only source of frustration. During the two or three years leading up to my meeting ...
... called out, “Don't worry about that. In three months' time, you may know Picasso.” He was right, almost to the day. My problems with painting weren't my only source of frustration. During the two or three years leading up to my meeting ...
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... called him—to tell Picasso that Marais had the role of Pyrrhus in a production of Racine's Andromaque. “Our little Jeannot is going to have a huge success,” Cocteau assured us. Jeannot had even designed the settings and costumes, and ...
... called him—to tell Picasso that Marais had the role of Pyrrhus in a production of Racine's Andromaque. “Our little Jeannot is going to have a huge success,” Cocteau assured us. Jeannot had even designed the settings and costumes, and ...
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... called in his absence. From time to time South American friends of his had sent him such things as hams so that he could eat a little better than the average during the war. In fact Pablo had more than once shared his food parcels with ...
... called in his absence. From time to time South American friends of his had sent him such things as hams so that he could eat a little better than the average during the war. In fact Pablo had more than once shared his food parcels with ...
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