In memory of Françoise Gilot, who has died at the age of 101, we revisit a feature from 2021 when an exhibition was held to mark her 100th birthday
The Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo PICASSO and Francoise GILLOT are spending their holiday on a little beach between Juan-les-Pins and Cape Antibes.
Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gillot, by 1952. LIP
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Francoise Gillot, partner of Pablo Picasso and her Paloma daughter. About 1952.
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I had a very hard time putting down my copy of The Woman Who Says No: Françoise Gilot on Her Life With and Without Picasso - Reb...
Napier is about to host the largest collection of artwork by pioneering fine art printmaker Françoise Gilot ever exhibited in the Southern Hemisphere. Françoise is a spritely 100 years old - and for 80 of them, this artist tour de force has experimented wth colour lithography.... She lived with Picasso in the late 1940s, and while already an established artist in her own right, she acknowledges that she learnt much by watching his printmaking techniques over that time. Lynn Freeman talks with Dr Adrian Ormsby, the Curator of the exhibition Francoise Gilot The Pioneer, which opens at Creative Arts Napier on the 22nd of April.
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