description: Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. Life with Picasso , her account of those extraordinary years, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts and his friends - Matisse, Braque, Gertrude Stein and Giacometti, among others. Francois Gilot paints a compelling portrait of her turbulent life with the temperamental (and even abusive) genius that was Picasso. As one of the few intimate witnesses to Picasso as a human being and as an artist, her account of him is invaluable for assessing him on both counts.
language: English
title: Life With Picasso
titlecomplete: Life With Picasso
characters: Françoise Gilot, Pablo Picasso
genres: Art History, France, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Art, 20th Century, History
ratings_count: 4122
publisher: McGraw-Hill