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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... interest in its author rather than its subject. What most impressed me, as a writer myself, was how well written it was. Although French was Gilot's first language, she had composed the book in a much better English than most of us ...
... interest in its author rather than its subject. What most impressed me, as a writer myself, was how well written it was. Although French was Gilot's first language, she had composed the book in a much better English than most of us ...
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... interest in her, except insofar as she could reflect him back to himselfin a glowing light. When she asked him for a break of several months so that she could go to the mountains and refresh herself and reflect upon their troubled ...
... interest in her, except insofar as she could reflect him back to himselfin a glowing light. When she asked him for a break of several months so that she could go to the mountains and refresh herself and reflect upon their troubled ...
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... interest is the art of our time, I have followed Picasso's work and life as closely as possible for many years. And ... interest. When I saw one of her paintings at the Salon de Mai some months later, my interest was sharpened. But it ...
... interest is the art of our time, I have followed Picasso's work and life as closely as possible for many years. And ... interest. When I saw one of her paintings at the Salon de Mai some months later, my interest was sharpened. But it ...
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... interest in young artists' work.” I wasn't convinced. At best it was curiosity, I felt. “He just wanted to see what we had inside—if anything.” “Oh, you're so cynical,” she said. “He seemed to me very kind, open-minded, and simple.” I ...
... interest in young artists' work.” I wasn't convinced. At best it was curiosity, I felt. “He just wanted to see what we had inside—if anything.” “Oh, you're so cynical,” she said. “He seemed to me very kind, open-minded, and simple.” I ...
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... interest he showed. When I did go back to see him, it wasn't long before he began to make very clear another side of the nature of his interest in me. There were always quite a few people waiting to see him: some in the long room on the ...
... interest he showed. When I did go back to see him, it wasn't long before he began to make very clear another side of the nature of his interest in me. There were always quite a few people waiting to see him: some in the long room on the ...
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