2023-06-06 22:32:03
The artist Francoise Gilotwho was Pablo Picasso’s partner for a decade, died in the last hours in a Manhattan hospital at the age of 101, according to The New York Times, citing a daughter of the deceased.
Gilot suffered from lung and heart problemsexplained his daughter Aurelia.
Author of a book titled “Life with Picasso”, published in 1964, Gilot was not only one of the few women who left the Spanish painter of her own free will, but also rebuilt her sentimental and artistic life and had a notable career in the United States as a painter and writer after their separation.
Gilot met Picasso in 1943, when she was 21 years old and he was 61 and both were paired. They never married but were in a relationship for ten years and had two children together, Claude and Paloma.
At a time when the figure of Picasso is being reinterpreted as a manipulative and macho manthe newspaper recalls an extract from the book, when Gilot announced to the painter that he was leaving him and Picasso reacted as follows:
“Do you think someone is going to be interested in you? They’ll never do it just for you: even the people you think appreciate you will just be kind of curious about a person whose life touched mine so intimately,” she told him.
The book was a best-seller and despite his mostly friendly tone with his ex-lover -he even dedicated it “to Pablo”-, it angered Picasso, who withdrew the word from him, as well as the two common children.
And although the book and her status as ex-lover of genius was what brought her the most fame, her career as a painter was successful and several of her paintings are part of the collections of the MET Museum, MoMA or the Pompidou Center in Paris; even in 2021 a work of his entitled “Dove with a guitar” sold for 1.3 million dollars at auction at Sotheby’s.
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