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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... father and an artist mother. Having decided to be a painter at the age of five, she began her training in art while still in her early youth. She later studied law at her father's insistence but returned to painting during the Second ...
... father and an artist mother. Having decided to be a painter at the age of five, she began her training in art while still in her early youth. She later studied law at her father's insistence but returned to painting during the Second ...
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... father. She was in an almost untenable situation, surrounded by many people two generations older than herself. Some wanted to use her to gain access to Picasso. Others wanted to dethrone her from her privileged position with him. Yet ...
... father. She was in an almost untenable situation, surrounded by many people two generations older than herself. Some wanted to use her to gain access to Picasso. Others wanted to dethrone her from her privileged position with him. Yet ...
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... father had encouraged this bent in me. He was, by training, an agronomical engineer, and had built up several manufacturing businesses in chemicals. But he was also a man with a passionate interest in literature and his large library ...
... father had encouraged this bent in me. He was, by training, an agronomical engineer, and had built up several manufacturing businesses in chemicals. But he was also a man with a passionate interest in literature and his large library ...
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... father tried to wake me up by telling me, “You're floating on air. You'd 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 ...
... father tried to wake me up by telling me, “You're floating on air. You'd 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 ...
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... father, who could be as hard as nails when his will was frustrated, could also be very generous when he wanted to be. When I told him about Rozsda's situation he helped him to get papers that would take him safely back to Budapest. When ...
... father, who could be as hard as nails when his will was frustrated, could also be very generous when he wanted to be. When I told him about Rozsda's situation he helped him to get papers that would take him safely back to Budapest. When ...
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