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The XXth Century
BIOGRAPHY
FRANÇOISE GILOT (Born 1921)
Françoise Gilot is the daughter of Émile Gilot and Madeleine Renoult, she began studying law but, more attracted by her passion for art, followed in the footsteps of her mother, a watercolourist, and turned to drawing and the painting. In May 19431, she met Pablo Picasso, then living with Dora Maar. She was his companion from 1944 to 1953, and the mother of two of his children, Claude (1947) and Paloma (1949). Picasso, during their period of living together, represents her under the appearance of the Flower Woman, radiant and solar. In the wake of Picasso, she continues to pursue her own career as a painter. In 1964, she published Living with Picasso, a relatively intimate book on their life together, which met with enormous success and some criticism, for the time, of opportunism. This book puts Picasso in a great anger, which goes so far as to no longer want to receive his children. After her separation from Picasso, Françoise Gilot married the painter Luc Simon, with whom she had a daughter, Aurélia. In 1970, she married Dr. Jonas Salk, a pioneer in polio vaccination, whom she had met the previous year through mutual friends in La Jolla, California, and with whom she lived until when he died in 1995. Painting twelve hours a day, she has exhibited her works in New York, California and Paris.
Réf. 6242
Pencil on paper
DIMENSIONS :
– 49 x 65 cm (77 x 92 cm encadré)
– 19 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (30 3/8 x 36 1/4 in. framed)
Signed lower right ‘F. Gilot’
PROVENANCE :
– Private collection
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