Word: gilot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Françoise Gilot, 59, painter who was once Pablo Picasso's mistress, on the difference between Picasso and Henri Matisse: "Matisse was as great as his art. That was not the case with Picasso. If you had to be around him much, you suffered...
...know what's fashionable. I can feel it in the air," sniffed Paloma Picasso. Who could argue? With parents like Painters Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, good taste seemed to run in her genes. Born the year her father designed his now famous dove for the Communist World Peace Congress (her name is Spanish for dove), Paloma, 31, is now recognized for her own international body. This year she was named to the International Best-Dressed list. But at the opening of a display of Ch'ing dynasty costumes at New York's Metropolitan Museum...
...love on his children after they passed the age of cherubic portraiture. Born over a span of 28 years, they were: Paulo, his only legitimate child, by Dancer Olga Koklova (he died in 1975); Maya, by Marie-Thérèse Walter; and Claude and Paloma, by Franchise Gilot. One of the few paramours or wives with any pretension to intellectuality, Gilot (now married to famed U.S. Scientist Dr. Jonas Salk) was co-author of a bitter book, Life with Picasso, in which she calls him a manipulator of human beings: "He loved only one thing-his painting...