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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... laughed. “All the more interesting if she's not the ordinary kind,” Picasso said. “But what do they do, your two refugees from the history of art?” “We're painters,” Geneviève answered. Picasso burst out laughing. “That's the funniest ...
... laughed. “All the more interesting if she's not the ordinary kind,” Picasso said. “But what do they do, your two refugees from the history of art?” “We're painters,” Geneviève answered. Picasso burst out laughing. “That's the funniest ...
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... little color to the greenery and so we arrived carrying a pot of cineraria. When Picasso saw us he laughed. “Nobody brings flowers to an old gent,” he said. Then he noticed that my dress was the same color as the blossoms, 19 PART I.
... little color to the greenery and so we arrived carrying a pot of cineraria. When Picasso saw us he laughed. “Nobody brings flowers to an old gent,” he said. Then he noticed that my dress was the same color as the blossoms, 19 PART I.
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... laugh so hard—whether because he thought it was funny or because he thought he had to-that he got his legs mixed up with his tripod and fell over backwards into a big basin of water that Picasso kept in the studio for Kasbek, his Afghan ...
... laugh so hard—whether because he thought it was funny or because he thought he had to-that he got his legs mixed up with his tripod and fell over backwards into a big basin of water that Picasso kept in the studio for Kasbek, his Afghan ...
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... laughed and said, “No point in making up your mind now. You haven't got there yet.” Picasso grew quiet for a moment and then said, “Do you remember the time we went up the miller's ladder into the forest, where we could look out over ...
... laughed and said, “No point in making up your mind now. You haven't got there yet.” Picasso grew quiet for a moment and then said, “Do you remember the time we went up the miller's ladder into the forest, where we could look out over ...
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... the 1930s.” On top of the pile were three etched portrait heads, two of them with aquatint, of the picture-dealer Ambroise Wollard. Picasso laughed. “The most beautiful woman who ever lived never had her 40 LIFE WITH PICASSO.
... the 1930s.” On top of the pile were three etched portrait heads, two of them with aquatint, of the picture-dealer Ambroise Wollard. Picasso laughed. “The most beautiful woman who ever lived never had her 40 LIFE WITH PICASSO.
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