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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... stayed in Paris during the German occupation, he was widely admired. Later, he became a darling of the International Communist Party. His accomplishments from a lifetime of hard work were being widely shown and appreciated, selling for ...
... stayed in Paris during the German occupation, he was widely admired. Later, he became a darling of the International Communist Party. His accomplishments from a lifetime of hard work were being widely shown and appreciated, selling for ...
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... stayed with me in the form of inhibitions. I wasn't convinced that I should believe in their tall tales and yet I wasn't positive that I should not. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty I had been very much in love with a boy my own ...
... stayed with me in the form of inhibitions. I wasn't convinced that I should believe in their tall tales and yet I wasn't positive that I should not. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty I had been very much in love with a boy my own ...
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... stay with me if she wants to. As a matter of fact, just to help you along, she'll undergo psychiatric examination voluntarily.” French law requires that two independent psychiatrists concur in a judgment of insanity before anyone can be ...
... stay with me if she wants to. As a matter of fact, just to help you along, she'll undergo psychiatric examination voluntarily.” French law requires that two independent psychiatrists concur in a judgment of insanity before anyone can be ...
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... stay there during the war, since his paintings had been denounced by Hitler and since the Occupation authorities took such a dim view of intellectuals. Many artists and writers—Léger, André Breton, Max Ernst, André Masson, Zadkine, and ...
... stay there during the war, since his paintings had been denounced by Hitler and since the Occupation authorities took such a dim view of intellectuals. Many artists and writers—Léger, André Breton, Max Ernst, André Masson, Zadkine, and ...
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... Staying on isn't really a manifestation of courage; it's just a form of inertia. I suppose it's simply that I prefer to be here. So I'll stay, whatever the cost.” A. 1 continued to turn up regularly at the Rue des GrandsAugustins ...
... Staying on isn't really a manifestation of courage; it's just a form of inertia. I suppose it's simply that I prefer to be here. So I'll stay, whatever the cost.” A. 1 continued to turn up regularly at the Rue des GrandsAugustins ...
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