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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... portrait of Louis XIV in the Louvre. The other woman, Alain Cuny whispered to me, was Dora Maar, a Yugoslav photographer and painter who, as everyone knew, had been Picasso's companion since 1936. Even without his help I would have had ...
... portrait of Louis XIV in the Louvre. The other woman, Alain Cuny whispered to me, was Dora Maar, a Yugoslav photographer and painter who, as everyone knew, had been Picasso's companion since 1936. Even without his help I would have had ...
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... portrait of Dora Maar that was hung, in spite of the Nazi ban on Picasso's work, in an out-of-the-way alcove of the Louise Leiris gallery in the Rue d'Astorg. It was a magnificent portrait, in pink and gray. In the background of the ...
... portrait of Dora Maar that was hung, in spite of the Nazi ban on Picasso's work, in an out-of-the-way alcove of the Louise Leiris gallery in the Rue d'Astorg. It was a magnificent portrait, in pink and gray. In the background of the ...
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... for Wollard in 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.
... for Wollard in 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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... portrait painted, drawn, or engraved any oftener than Wollard—by Cézanne, Renoir, Rouault, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody, in fact. I think they all did him through a sense of competition, each one wanting to do him better than the ...
... portrait painted, drawn, or engraved any oftener than Wollard—by Cézanne, Renoir, Rouault, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody, in fact. I think they all did him through a sense of competition, each one wanting to do him better than the ...
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... portrait head, looking very pleased with himself. Rays emanated from the head. “While he's working on it, he's sure it's pure genius, you see.” He turned to another. The sculptor sat before his work, the model standing between him and ...
... portrait head, looking very pleased with himself. Rays emanated from the head. “While he's working on it, he's sure it's pure genius, you see.” He turned to another. The sculptor sat before his work, the model standing between him and ...
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