Life With Picasso

Name: Life With Picasso
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781853812330
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By Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake

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Life With Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake offers an intimate look into the complex relationship between artist Pablo Picasso and Gilot herself, who was both his lover and artistic muse. The memoir delves into their personal and professional lives, revealing insights into Picasso's creative processes and personality, as experienced by Gilot. This candid narrative provides a unique perspective on the influential artist, capturing the dynamic and often turbulent nature of their time together.
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This book may appeal to you if you are fascinated by the art world and intrigued by the complex relationship between creativity and personal life. Francoise Gilot offers an intimate, insightful look into her life with Pablo Picasso, providing a rare perspective on his personality and their tumultuous yet inspiring artistic partnership. It's a captivating read for those interested in both personal memoirs and the vibrant world of modern art.

Life With Picasso

' Gilot is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and to his views on art . . . This memoir is both a vivid portrait of a monstrously difficult man and a brilliant depiction of a great artist at work' New York Times

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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. Francoise Gilot paints a compelling portrait of her turbulent life with the temperamental genius that was Picasso.

She is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and to his views on art...

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Life With Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake is praised for its unique insights into Picasso's personality and art, drawing from Gilot's close relationship with him. The book offers vivid portraits of other artists like Matisse and Braque while providing a compelling account of the complexities of life alongside the iconic yet challenging figure of Picasso.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781853812330

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 1990

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Illustration: Section: 8, B&W

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 289g

Pages: 352

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Carlton Lake Francoise Gilot Non-Fiction

About the Author

Francoise Gilot was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in 1987 and a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1990. Carlton Lake is a writer, editor and arts correspondant having contributed to numerous magazines.