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Françoise Gilot
Sign in to saveAlso known as Marie Françoise Gilot, Francoise Picasso Gilot, Francoise Gilot, Francoise Picasso, Françoise Gilot Simon, Françoise Picasso, Françoise Gillot
French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso (1921–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 26 Nov 1921
- Died
- 26 Nov 2023
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Vivre avec Picasso
- Vivre avec Picasso
- Françoise Gilot
- Picasso and Francoise Gilot
- Monotypes
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023) was a French painter. Gilot was an internationally known artist working largely in watercolors and ceramics as well as a bestselling memoirist of the book Life with Picasso. Gilot's artwork is showcased in more than a dozen leading museums including the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Centre…
Known for
- Pablo Picasso et Françoise Gilot : la femme qui dit non — Self (archive footage)2020
- Picasso: The Legacy — Self (archive footage)2014
- Dim Dam Dom — Self1965
- Life Begins Tomorrow — Self - Picasso's companion (uncredited)1950
- Portrait of Françoise Gilot
via TMDB
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- FOLFIRINOX versus Gemcitabine for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
· 2011 · cited 6,669x
- Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials
· 2010 · cited 5,446x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,082x
- The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 3,719x
- The complete sequence of a human genome
· 2022 · cited 2,940x
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Quotes
- “[H]eavy load of his far-from-dead past, which was beginning to seem like an albatross around my neck.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Françoise Gaime Gilot , ( 1921-11-26 ) 26 November 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
- Died
- 6 June 2023 (2023-06-06) (aged 101), New York City, U.S.
- Education
- British Institute in Paris (1939)
- Known for
- Painting
- Spouses
- Luc Simon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1962 ) Jonas Salk ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 ; died 1995 )
- Partner
- Pablo Picasso (1943–1953)
- Children
- 3, including Claude and Paloma Picasso
- Awards
- Legion of Honour
- Website
- www .francoisegilot .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023) was a French painter. Gilot first made her mark in the post-war milieu of artists who redefined the European artistic landscape. With a career that spanned more than seven decades, her work was largely produced in watercolors and ceramics, and combined elements of abstraction, figuration, and symbolism, often drawing on mythology, personal experience, and themes of transformation. Gilot exhibited widely in Europe and the United States and was represented by major galleries, with her paintings held in numerous public and private collections.
Gilot was also known for her relationship with artist Pablo Picasso, with whom she shared a decade-long partnership and had two children. Unlike many of Picasso's other companions, she left him and later became the only one to publicly recount her experiences in the memoir Life with Picasso (1964), which became an international bestseller despite Picasso's opposition. In the decades following their separation, Gilot deliberately established an independent artistic identity, gaining increasing institutional recognition late in life, including major retrospectives and permanent museum installations that affirmed her significance as an artist in her own right. In 2021, her painting Paloma à la Guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby's in London.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Françoise Gilot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.