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LIFE WITH PICASSO by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. 373 pages. McGraw-Hill...
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...
...chic St. Tropez to outfit daughters Paloma, 12, and Catherine, 13, in the Riviera's latest de rigueur-narrow green slacks and embroidered tops. Though the girls consider themselves sisters, they stem from unrelated branches of the cubistic Picasso family tree. Paloma is by Painter Françoise Gilot, Catherine by Picasso's wife's first husband...
...late '30s he began to be seen with Dora Maar, a beautiful woman who kept appearing on his canvases with a cub-istically dislocated face. Even more unflattering was his muttonheaded portrait of Painter Francoise Gilot. Though Picasso and Francoise had two children, she finally left him in a huff. "I am not living with a man," she complained, "but with a monument." Picasso was all of 71 when the blow fell, but he soon found consolation with young Jacqueline. If the Paris-Presse portrait is any indication, this marriage may turn out to be the happiest...
...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...