Word: gilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...venerable museum work, turned it over like an old coat, recut it and adjusted it to his own measurements." Painted in 1954-55, the exercise was also Picasso's way of working off the melancholy caused by the departure of his companion of eight years, Françoise Gilot, who one day suddenly left, taking their two children with her, announcing: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...
Among modern-art enthusiasts, pretty Franchise Gilot, 30, must rest her main claim to fame on her great & good friendship with Pablo Picasso. Since 1945? she has kept house for him on the French Riviera, served as model for dozens of portraits, borne him two children, Claude (four) and Paloma (three). In Paris last week, Franchise made a bid for a bit more attention in her own right: she put on a one-man show of her own paintings for the first time...
...opening last week, Picasso, who considers Franchise's work "Beautiful and serious," arrived early and proudly signed the guest register. Paris critics were less friendly. Only two papers, both of them Communist and thus naturally solicitous for Comrade Picasso, bothered to review the exhibition. Sample: "Françoise Gilot expresses simple sentiments in a simple...