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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-5 sur 26
Page 29
... grandmother's house, which was not far from ours. My grandmother was out. I decided to wait for her to return. In a few minutes my father and mother arrived. By now my mother, too, must have been convinced I was out of my mind. Until ...
... grandmother's house, which was not far from ours. My grandmother was out. I decided to wait for her to return. In a few minutes my father and mother arrived. By now my mother, too, must have been convinced I was out of my mind. Until ...
Page 30
... grandmother walked in. She came upstairs as quickly as she could. She asked my father what was going on. He told her that whatever she saw, I had done to myself. I told her this was not true. She said she was in no position to make up ...
... grandmother walked in. She came upstairs as quickly as she could. She asked my father what was going on. He told her that whatever she saw, I had done to myself. I told her this was not true. She said she was in no position to make up ...
Page 31
... grandmother, I had money problems, since my father had always been the source of my money, The only clothes I had were the ones I was wearing the day I ran to my grandmother's. It was impossible, of course, to get anything out of my ...
... grandmother, I had money problems, since my father had always been the source of my money, The only clothes I had were the ones I was wearing the day I ran to my grandmother's. It was impossible, of course, to get anything out of my ...
Page 38
... grandmother's. I suppose I had been making the most of them after weeks of wearing the same outfit every day. “You mind your business, Sabartés,” Picasso said. “You don't understand anything. You haven't got the intelligence to realize ...
... grandmother's. I suppose I had been making the most of them after weeks of wearing the same outfit every day. “You mind your business, Sabartés,” Picasso said. “You don't understand anything. You haven't got the intelligence to realize ...
Page 52
... grandmother's house in Neuilly to see Pablo, I would take my bicycle, whatever the weather, and often arrive at his house spattered with mud. One day when I showed up in that condition, he laughed and said, “This must be the new kind of ...
... grandmother's house in Neuilly to see Pablo, I would take my bicycle, whatever the weather, and often arrive at his house spattered with mud. One day when I showed up in that condition, he laughed and said, “This must be the new kind of ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
afternoon Apollinaire Aragon artist asked atelier Bateau Lavoir better Braque brought bullfight called canvas Chagall Claude color Cubist decided Dora Maar drawing Eluard everything eyes face father Father Couturier feel felt Françoise Gilot friends Galloise gave Geneviève Gertrude Stein Giacometti girl give Golfe-Juan grandmother hair head idea interest Juan Gris Kahnweiler kind KINGSLEY AMIS knew Kootz later laugh leave Léger lithographs live with Pablo looked Madame Ramié Marcel Marie Laurencin Marie-Thérèse Marie-Thérèse Walter Matisse Ménerbes Midi Monsieur morning Mourlot museum never Olga once Pablo Picasso painter painting Paloma Paris Paul Paul Eluard Paulo period photograph Picasso portrait pottery realized Rue des Grands-Augustins Sabartés sculpture seemed someone stay studio talk tell Tériade there's things thought tion told Pablo took turned walked Wallauris weeks woman