Word: gilot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Françoise Gilot. Picasso's penultimate mistress tells in bitterly frank detail of her nine turbulent years with the century's most extraordinary painter-genius and illumines, by her own very considerable artistic knowledge, his views on the art and artists around...
...Life with Picasso, Gilot...
LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Françoise Gilot. In a rich year for autobiographies and memoirs, this account of the great artist by his ex-mistress of nine years holds a unique and surprisingly high place. Mile. Gilot is unfailingly frank about her own emotions as well as Picasso's, making her revelation of living with genius meaningful as well as authentic...
LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Francoise Gilot. Acid oozes from the pen of a discarded mistress who, in nine years with Picasso, served as his model and the mother of two children, only slowly realizing the real role she played in the life of the man who was fond of proclaiming: "As far as I am concerned, there are two kinds of women-goddesses and doormats." Mile. Gilot's account of the master's views on art-his and others'-is illuminating, but best of all are the tart portraits of a monumental ego, made more devastating...
After nine years and two children, Franchise Gilot finally left Pablo Picasso, reportedly exclaiming: "I am not living with a man, but with a monument." Many women have tried to live with the monument who, as the greatest living artist, was bound to make it a monumental task. Françe was his fourth long-term mistress, escaped becoming his second wife. Now, twelve years after the end of the affair, Françoise recollects in tranquillity-something she rarely had with Picasso-with the aid of the Paris art correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor...