Life With Picasso Author:Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake Gilot's recall of Picasso's discussions about art, details of private visits to friends such as Matisse, Braque and Giacometti, and her intimate understanding of his temperament, make this work unique. This memoir is both a vivid portrait of a monstrously difficult man and a brilliant depiction of a great artist at work. No-on... more »e else in the Picasso entourage was so close to him ...
Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two. For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the art world, giving birth to two of his children, working as his model, and sharing his world. This uniquely candid and vivid memoir takes readers behind the Piccasso legend to meet the man.« less