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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... feel inhibited, and when he felt more adventurous, I would have doubts. Then he fell ill with pleurisy, and during that time my parents tried to break up our friendship. While he was away convalescing, I decided I had to get beyond that ...
... feel inhibited, and when he felt more adventurous, I would have doubts. Then he fell ill with pleurisy, and during that time my parents tried to break up our friendship. While he was away convalescing, I decided I had to get beyond that ...
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... feeling with you—of speaking the same language. From the very first moment I knew we could communicate.” I told him that made me feel better. I said that before the vacation I had felt a bit guilty about coming to see him so often and ...
... feeling with you—of speaking the same language. From the very first moment I knew we could communicate.” I told him that made me feel better. I said that before the vacation I had felt a bit guilty about coming to see him so often and ...
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... Feeling very timid, I did. I referred to something in one of them as having arisen from the memory of a trip I had made ... feel as you stand there looking down on the Val d'Enfer that makes me think of Dante,” Picasso said. “It should ...
... Feeling very timid, I did. I referred to something in one of them as having arisen from the memory of a trip I had made ... feel as you stand there looking down on the Val d'Enfer that makes me think of Dante,” Picasso said. “It should ...
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... feel the consummation of our relationship was irrevocably fixed, like the striking of a clock, to take place at a predetermined moment. He said that whatever there was between us, or whatever was to be, was surely a wonderful thing and ...
... feel the consummation of our relationship was irrevocably fixed, like the striking of a clock, to take place at a predetermined moment. He said that whatever there was between us, or whatever was to be, was surely a wonderful thing and ...
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... feel that this instant is a true beginning. We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal ... feeling the necessity of anything beyond just being together. Finally he finished talking. We continued to lie there ...
... feel that this instant is a true beginning. We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal ... feeling the necessity of anything beyond just being together. Finally he finished talking. We continued to lie there ...
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