When Francoise Gilot, an aspiring young painter, met Pablo Picasso
in May, 1943, she was twenty-one years old, he some forty years her
senior. As they grew together, setting about their mutual campaigns
upon each other, she proved herself a worthy adversary rather than
acolyte. In the ten years which she shared with him, undertaking t
o assuage his solitude, bearing him two children, meeting his
friend and admirers, she maintained a cool comprehension along with
her compassion for Picasso the man that shows to delightful
advantage here. For Francoise Gilot has the capacity to reveal the
man in his intimate and professional dealings, and Picasso is
superlative, inimitable copy. Witness Picasso dangling his agents,
foremost among them Kahnweller, fancing with his friends Braque and
Matisse, playing cat and mouse with the women in his life - wife
Olga, Marie Therese Walter, Dora Marr, Francoise and her successor
jacqueline Roque. But the author has the capacity as well to show
Picasso the artist: she quotes him on painting, describes his
method of work in painting, sculpture, pottery. Picasso himself is
so articulate that he defies other description; au fond, art and
the artist are subversive. His re-marks on art include not only his
own but that of his foremost colleagues, Matisse and Braque, Miro,
Legor, Chagall...All his encounters here are formed by his own
formidable temperament, and recalled in satisfying detail by the
woman who shared them. An intimate, vivid, above all intelligent
and authentic portrait of Picasso, with its twin elements of love
and art, this should sell like mad. And rightly. It's high spirited
reading. (Kirkus Reviews)
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
was Picasso. She is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and to
his views on art.
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