"Life with Picasso" book signed by Francoise Gilot, circa 1960s, with over 342 pages, signed by Francoise Gilot and dated 3/9/75

Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.

"Life with Picasso" is an indispensable record of his thinking about art, as well as an often very funny account of his relationships with other artists and with dealers and hangers-on. It is also about Françoise Gilot. This is a brilliant self-portrait of a young woman of enormous talent and exacting intelligence figuring out who she wants to be.

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.

DIMENSIONS: Height: 9.20 inch 
                         Length: 6.20 inch
                      

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