Françoise Gilot
French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso (1921–2023)
Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023) was a French painter. Gilot was already an accomplished artist, especially in watercolors and ceramics, when she met Pablo Picasso, but her professional career was eclipsed by her social celebrity, and when she split from Picasso he discouraged galleries from buying her work and unsuccessfully tried to block her 1964 memoir, Life with Picasso.
Quotes
edit- [H]eavy load of his far-from-dead past, which was beginning to seem like an albatross around my neck.
- Steinhauer, Jillian (23 December 2019). Fire and Brimstone - The entwined lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso. The Nation.
- Cited from book Life with Picasso with Gilot describing how Picasso's former partner's continuing to remain part of his life was affecting her.
Works
edit- Françoise Gilot (1964) (in en), Life with Picasso (1st ed.), New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Wikidata Q119166507, OCLC 1150230653
