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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... later studied law at her father's insistence but returned to painting during the Second World War. Because of the censorship of art in Nazi-occupied France, Gilot's early work relied heavily on symbols. In 1943 she met Pablo Picasso and ...
... later studied law at her father's insistence but returned to painting during the Second World War. Because of the censorship of art in Nazi-occupied France, Gilot's early work relied heavily on symbols. In 1943 she met Pablo Picasso and ...
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... later I came across her memoir Life with Picasso. Although of course aware of Pablo Picasso's status as a demigod in the artworld, I read the book from an interest in its author rather than its subject. What most impressed me, as a ...
... later I came across her memoir Life with Picasso. Although of course aware of Pablo Picasso's status as a demigod in the artworld, I read the book from an interest in its author rather than its subject. What most impressed me, as a ...
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... later, I have difficulty comprehending the objections to this book, since Picasso emerges from its pages as the supremely gifted artist that he undoubtedly was. His methods and rationales regarding his painting and drawing are lucidly ...
... later, I have difficulty comprehending the objections to this book, since Picasso emerges from its pages as the supremely gifted artist that he undoubtedly was. His methods and rationales regarding his painting and drawing are lucidly ...
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... later brought bittersweet reminiscences of those days to my house in Paris when she came to give my wife French lessons. About a dozen years ago Alice Toklas described to me a visit she had recently made to Picasso and Françoise Gilot ...
... later brought bittersweet reminiscences of those days to my house in Paris when she came to give my wife French lessons. About a dozen years ago Alice Toklas described to me a visit she had recently made to Picasso and Françoise Gilot ...
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... later told me, that he felt he had already painted in his work of the Ingresque or Roman period. She often accentuated that Grecian quality, as she did that evening, by wearing a flowing, pleated dress. “Well, Cuny,” Picasso said. “Are ...
... later told me, that he felt he had already painted in his work of the Ingresque or Roman period. She often accentuated that Grecian quality, as she did that evening, by wearing a flowing, pleated dress. “Well, Cuny,” Picasso said. “Are ...
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