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Necessary Huffness All the residents of Huffington's large romantic stone house in Brentwood, Calif., are female: Huffington, her sister Agapi and her two daughters Christina, 19, and Isabella, 17. The walls of the living room are adorned with paintings by Françoise Gilot, one of Picasso's lovers, and Kimberly Brooks, the wife of actor Albert Brooks. Isabella's room is covered with photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Most members of the house staff are women - Huffington even uses her housekeeper as chauffeur when necessary. "My mom's not good at driving," Isabella says. The matriarch is a deft...
...illustration of Paloma Picasso as a child in 1955, done by her mother Françoise Gilot...
...ended, so did the couple's relationship. Perhaps the passion burned out; perhaps the hysteria of the Weeping Woman became too much for the artist to indulge. By 1946, Picasso had taken up with 25-year-old Fran?oise Gilot, whom he had met three years earlier; he offered Maar a house at M?nerbes in Vaucluse. They were to see each other only once more, at a friend's house in 1954. Picasso had almost 20 years of work left in him; Maar, by then a recluse, survived him by 24 years. When Baldassari was invited to catalogue the contents...
...when he became director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at a magnificent compound designed by Louis Kahn, on an oceanfront promontory in La Jolla, California. It attracted scientists in many fields to pursue biomedical research. In 1970, two years after divorcing his first wife, Salk married Francoise Gilot, the onetime companion and muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of two of Picasso's children...
Such an approach to Picasso renders the book simplistic and biased. Huffington bases a large part of the last sections of the book on her interviews with Francoise Gilot, the woman who left Picasso after bearing him two children. And Huffington is so unabashedly admiring of Gilot that the reader wonders if a biography of her wouldn't have been a more appropriate subject for the author...