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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... drawing are lucidly described, as are his groundbreaking excursions into etching, lithography, sculpture, and pottery. Gilot makes it clear that he was a genius of invention and a force of nature, someone whose compulsive creativity was ...
... drawing are lucidly described, as are his groundbreaking excursions into etching, lithography, sculpture, and pottery. Gilot makes it clear that he was a genius of invention and a force of nature, someone whose compulsive creativity was ...
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... drawing and painting for several years before meeting Picasso when she was twenty-one. She had already been showing and selling her work. She had developed her own style and artistic beliefs, and she understood the need to guard them ...
... drawing and painting for several years before meeting Picasso when she was twenty-one. She had already been showing and selling her work. She had developed her own style and artistic beliefs, and she understood the need to guard them ...
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... drawings right at the moment in a gallery in the Rue Boissy d'Anglas, behind the Place de la Concorde. Picasso looked down at us in mock-surprise. “Well . . . I'm a painter, too,” he said. “You must come to my studio and see some of my ...
... drawings right at the moment in a gallery in the Rue Boissy d'Anglas, behind the Place de la Concorde. Picasso looked down at us in mock-surprise. “Well . . . I'm a painter, too,” he said. “You must come to my studio and see some of my ...
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... drawings Picasso had made of him, and Cuny had told us that Sabartés would be the one to receive us. He looked at us suspiciously and asked, “Do you have an appointment?” I said we did. He let us in. He looked anxious as he peered out ...
... drawings Picasso had made of him, and Cuny had told us that Sabartés would be the one to receive us. He looked at us suspiciously and asked, “Do you have an appointment?” I said we did. He let us in. He looked anxious as he peered out ...
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... drawing,” he went on. “I think you should keep on working—hard—every day. I'll be curious to see how your work develops. I hope you'll show me other things from time to time.” Then he added, to Geneviève, “I think you've found the right ...
... drawing,” he went on. “I think you should keep on working—hard—every day. I'll be curious to see how your work develops. I hope you'll show me other things from time to time.” Then he added, to Geneviève, “I think you've found the right ...
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