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...FRANCE In 18th century Paris, runners pulled vinaigrettes-proto-rickshaws named after the wheelbarrows used to bear vinegar. This 1707 painting by Claude Gillot, Les Deux Carrosses, shows two early examples...
These are not sloppy pictures off the sketch pad--the artists obviously agonized over every little detail. Some of the details are so sharp and refined, it would be absolutely impossible to do the same with a paintbrush, as in Burial of a Satyr, by Claude Gillot. Gillot was an etcher with an extremely precise hand, and every line in this satyr funeral has something to say. This is not the only example of lots of patience and a very sharp pencil. Chandeliers, leaves and dress costumes all receive careful attention in various works throughout the exhibit...
Watteau often painted such personalities in commedia dell' arte costumes, for the masquerade was the sign and symbol of his era. To capture its magic, the Flemish-born painter had run away to Paris at the age of 18, then studied with Stage Designer Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that...
...situation Picasso will soon change. Two weeks ago he handed back his gingerbread Riviera house in 'Vallauris to his former wife, Franchise Gillot, and for 12 million francs bought a sunny, 13-room villa, La null overlooking Cannes, six miles from Communist Leader Maurice Thorez. Said Soviet-Admirer Picasso proudly: "For the first time in my life I will be a houseowner...
...year ago, Pablo Picasso's young and beautiful wife, Francoise Gillot, left him. She took along their two children, aged 6 and 4, explained that she was "sick of living with a monument." The "monument" bestirred itself, and by February produced a series of 180 drawings that may well stand among the richest flowerings in soth century art. The drawings were first put together as a book in Paris. Last week they were available on U.S. book counters as Picasso and the Human Comedy (Harcourt, Brace...