$28.80
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
14 March 1996
Summary
A Decade with a Genius: My Life with Picasso
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma.
LIFE WITH PICASSO, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts and his friends - Matisse, Bra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853812330 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853812331 |
| Author: | Carlton Lake, Francoise Gilot |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 1996 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Virago Press |
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This memoir is both a vivd portrait of a monstrously difficult man and a brilliant depiction of a great artist at work
’[Gilot’s] recall of his [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’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘This memoir is both a vivd portrait of a monstrously difficult man and a brilliant depiction of a great artist at work’ NEW YORK TIMES’ no-one in the Picasso entourage was so close to him fascinating.’ Tim HiltonAbout The Author
Carlton Lake
Francoise Gilot was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in 1987 and a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1990.
Carlton Lake is a writer, editor and arts correspondent having contributed to numerous magazines.
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