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Herwig, Malte Christian Walter, 1972-
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Gilot, Françoise, 1921-
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Relations with women.
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Friends and associates.
Women painters -- France -- Biography.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
Women artists -- France -- Biography.
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Herwig, Malte Christian Walter, 1972-
Gilot, Françoise, 1921-
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Relations with women.
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Friends and associates.
Women painters -- France -- Biography.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
Women artists -- France -- Biography.
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The woman who says no : François Gilot on her life with and without Picasso : rebel, muse, artist /
Malte
Herwig
; translation by Jane Billinghurst.
by
Herwig
,
Malte
Christian
Walter
,
1972-
Greystone Books, 2016.
Call #:
759.4 G488h
Subjects
Gilot, Françoise, 1921-
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Relations with women.
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Friends and associates.
Women painters -- France -- Biography.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
Women artists -- France -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781771642279 (hc.)
Description:
153 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Translation of: Die frau, die nein sagt.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
An intimate and revealing biography of the talented artist who dared to leave Picasso. Françoise Gilot's ex-lover Pablo Picasso called her "the woman who says no." She may have spent her life in the company of men who changed the world - Picasso, Matisse, and Jonas Salk - but Gilot forged vital relationships with ground-breaking artists and scientists on her own terms, creating an artistic style all her own, translated into an enormous collection of paintings and drawings held by private collectors and public museums around the world. In her early nineties, she shared her hospitality and wisdom with writer
Malte
Herwig
, who started out as an interviewer but found himself drawn into the role of pupil as Gilot, whom he called "a philosopher of joy," introduced him to different ways of seeing the world. Françoise Gilot (born in 1921) is a French painter, critic, and author. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s she designed costumes, stage sets, and masks for productions at the Guggenheim in New York. She was the lover and artistic muse of Pablo Picasso from 1944 to 1953, and the mother of his children, Claude and Paloma. She later married the American vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk.
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Biographies.
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Billinghurst, Jane, 1958-
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