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The Woman Who Says No

Françoise Gilot on Her Life With and Without Picasso

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An intimate, revealing biography of a talented artist who lived life on her own terms.

Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot "The Woman Who Says No." Talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions unscathed. From 2012 to 2014, German journalist and author Malte Herwig dropped by her ateliers in Paris and New York to chat with her about life, love, and art. She shared trenchant observations, her sharp sense of humor, and over ninety years of experience, much of it in the company of men who changed the world: Picasso, Matisse, and her second husband, the famous virologist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine. Never one to stand in the shadows, Gilot engaged with ground-breaking artists and scientists on her own terms, creating from these vital interactions 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 generously shared her hospitality and wisdom with 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," shared with him different ways of seeing the world.


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    • Library Journal

      May 15, 2016

      Francoise Gilot is an artist in her own right, and in her mid-90s, she still paints every day. She was also Pablo Picasso's companion for ten years in the Forties and Fifties, and the only woman who succeeded in leaving him unscathed. Gilot later wrote about her experience in My Life with Picasso. German journalist Herwig convinced Gilot to speak with him about her life and art in a series of interviews divided between New York and Paris, where she splits her time. Gilot comes across as a strong, wise, and articulate woman dedicated to her painting. Herwig even assumes the role of pupil in parts of the discussion of the artist's process, taking lessons on how to draw. The book also contains excerpts from My Life with Picasso and from Gilot's subsequent works, The Painter and the Mask and Matisse and Picasso, further grounding the account biographically. Beautiful color photographic portraits of Gilot were commissioned exclusively for this volume and are featured along with other images of her studio and relevant artworks. VERDICT Recommended for anyone interested in 20th-century art and the process of creating.--Sandra Rothenberg, Framingham State Univ. Lib., MA

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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