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Life With Picasso
Francoise Gilot
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Description for Life With Picasso
Paperback. The young painter Francoise Gilot met Picasso in a Parisian cafe when he was 62. During the next ten years they were lovers, worked together and had two children, Claude and Paloma. In an account filled with intimate revelations, the author paints a portrait of her turbulent life with Picasso. Num Pages: 352 pages, Section: 8, B&W. BIC Classification: ACXD5; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. Life with Picasso, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts and his friends - Matisse, Braque, Gertrude Stein and Giacometti among others. Francois Gilot paints a compelling portrait of her turbulent life with the temperamental genius that ... Read more
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. Life with Picasso, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts and his friends - Matisse, Braque, Gertrude Stein and Giacometti among others. Francois Gilot paints a compelling portrait of her turbulent life with the temperamental genius that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853812330
SKU
V9781853812330
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About Francoise Gilot
Francoise Gilot was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in 1987 and a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1990. Carlton Lake is a writer, editor and arts correspondant having contributed to numerous magazines.
Reviews for Life With Picasso
... no-one in the Picasso entourage was so close to him... fascinating.
Tim Hilton
This memoir is both a vivd portrait of a monstrously difficult man and a brilliant depiction of a great artist at work
NEW YORK TIMES
[Gilot's] recall of his [Picasso's] discussions about art, details of private visits to friends such as Matisse, ... Read more
Tim Hilton
This memoir is both a vivd portrait of a monstrously difficult man and a brilliant depiction of a great artist at work
NEW YORK TIMES
[Gilot's] recall of his [Picasso's] discussions about art, details of private visits to friends such as Matisse, ... Read more