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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... thought and work than anyone I had encountered. Over the years since then we have talked often about Picasso and painting. During the course of a luncheon in Neuilly one raw January day, we discovered we had been working toward this ...
... thought and work than anyone I had encountered. Over the years since then we have talked often about Picasso and painting. During the course of a luncheon in Neuilly one raw January day, we discovered we had been working toward this ...
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... thought, Oh, if he'll only stop going on about the hot water and show us some pictures! Instead, he gave us a short course in how to make resin. I was just at the point of deciding we'd probably have to leave without seeing any ...
... thought, Oh, if he'll only stop going on about the hot water and show us some pictures! Instead, he gave us a short course in how to make resin. I was just at the point of deciding we'd probably have to leave without seeing any ...
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... thought he perhaps wanted to appear simple but I had looked into those eyes of his and seen something quite different. It hadn't frightened me, though. In fact it made me want to go back. I temporized for about another week and then ...
... thought he perhaps wanted to appear simple but I had looked into those eyes of his and seen something quite different. It hadn't frightened me, though. In fact it made me want to go back. I temporized for about another week and then ...
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... thought of it, so I just looked surprised. “You're very gifted for drawing,” he went on. “I think you should keep on working—hard—every day. I'll be curious to see how your work develops. I hope you'll show me other things from time to ...
... thought of it, so I just looked surprised. “You're very gifted for drawing,” he went on. “I think you should keep on working—hard—every day. I'll be curious to see how your work develops. I hope you'll show me other things from time to ...
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... thought, he said, “Tiens! That drawing in whitewash on the wall over there—what do you suppose that represents?” Trying to sound as offhand as he had, I said I didn't know. It didn't seem to me to be at all figurative, I told him. He ...
... thought, he said, “Tiens! That drawing in whitewash on the wall over there—what do you suppose that represents?” Trying to sound as offhand as he had, I said I didn't know. It didn't seem to me to be at all figurative, I told him. He ...
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