Françoise Gilot

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Françoise Gilot (2013)

Marie Françoise Gilot (born November 26, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French painter and graphic artist of the Nouvelle École de Paris and a successful book author. She became known in 1964 with her autobiography Life with Picasso , which describes the period of her life from 1943 to 1953 at the side of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso .

Life

Françoise Gilot's mother Madeleine Renoult (1898–1985) was a talented watercolor painter , her father Emile Gilot (1889–1957) a successful businessman. Very authoritarian in dealing with his daughter, he had planned a legal career for her.

Picasso with Parasol and Gilot, 1948
Robert Capa , 1948
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However, she turned to painting. In 1938 she set up her first studio with her grandmother Anne Renoult in Paris. In May 1943 (at the age of 21), during the German occupation (1940–1944), she organized her first successful exhibition. There she met Pablo Picasso , 40 years her senior , who lived separately from his first wife Olga Stepanowna Chochlowa and gave up his relationship with Dora Maar for Gilot. From 1948 she lived with him in Vallauris in southern France. The beach picture from this year by photographer Robert Capa , which shows Picasso protecting the preceding Gilot on the beach of Golfe-Juan with a parasol, is one of the media icons . She gave birth to their children, Claude and Paloma , in 1947 and 1949. After the death of her grandmother, she ended her relationship with Picasso in 1953 and moved back to Paris with both children. She was the only woman who left Picasso of her own accord and was not abandoned by him.

As early as 1961, the journalist Carlton Lake supported her in writing about her time with Picasso. Picasso tried in three instances, legally unsuccessful, to prevent the publication of her book Life with Picasso in France in 1964, since in it she not only describes aspects of Picasso's artistic development, but also takes a stance on his own dealings with women.

When Gilot tried to take up painting again after their separation, she found that Picasso had forbidden all Parisian galleries from exhibiting their works; he threatened that otherwise they would never get a picture of him again.

After Picasso had married Jacqueline Roque privately and in camera in 1961 in Vallauris, he initially allowed their children Claude and Paloma to visit; after the publication of Gilot's book in 1964, however, he broke off all contact.

Françoise Gilot met Jonas Salk , the discoverer of the polio vaccine, in La Jolla , California , in 1969 and stayed with him from their marriage in 1970 until his death in 1995.

Gilot currently has studios in New York City and on Montmartre in Paris .

Artistic work

Françoise Gilot belonged to the Nouvelle École de Paris during and after the Second World War, to which not only abstract artists felt they belonged. Her pictures are mostly figurative, but her oeuvre also includes works that begin abstractly and then receive structural elements in the creative process. In addition to oil painting , she also dealt with printmaking , such as the monotype , lithography and aquatint . Today she works detached from form and color and sees her task as an artist in reshaping and expanding perception.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

In addition, Françoise Gilot had other exhibitions in universities in the USA. Works by her are represented in the collections of numerous museums (selection):

Publications

  • Françoise Gilot / Carlton Lake: Life with Picasso . McGraw-Hill, New York 1964
  • Sur la Pierre (poems and lithographs) , Montcalm Gallery, Michigan 1972
  • Paloma Sphynx (A fable with drawings) , Paris 1975
  • Le Regard et son Masque , Calmann-Levy, Paris 1975
  • The Fugitive Eye (poems and drawings) , Aeolian Press, San Diego 1976
  • Interface: The Painter and the Mask , The Press at California State University 1983
  • An Artist's Journey , The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 1987
  • Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art , Doubleday, 1990, ISBN 978-0-385-26044-2 .
    • German: Matisse and Picasso. An artist friendship. From the American by Jürgen Benz. Kindler, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-463-40139-8 .
  • Picasso et la Méditerranée retrouvée , with Maurice Frechuret, Gregoire Gardette Editions 1996
  • Illustrations for The Bird Man and the Dancer , Text Lisa Alther . Original edition Birdman and the dancer , 1993. German by Cornelia Holfelder- von der Tann. Wunderlich, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-8052-0566-X .
  • Françoise Gilot Monograph 1940-2000 , with Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Acatos, Lausanne 2000, ISBN 2-940033-36-6 .
  • Dans l'arène avec Picasso , with Annie Maïllis, Indigène Editions 2004
  • with Lisa Alther : About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter. Nan A. Talese, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-385-53986-9 .

Literature and catalogs

  • Malte Herwig: The woman who says no: rebel, muse, painter - Françoise Gilot on her life with and without Picasso . Ankerherz, Hollenstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-940138-82-8 .
  • Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris – Vallauris 1943–1953 , catalog for the exhibition, ed. by John Richardson in collaboration with Françoise Gilot. Rizzoli, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-8478-3923-0 .
  • Ulrich Mack : Françoise Gilot - a photographic portrait. Benteli Verlag, Wabern / Bern 2006, ISBN 3-7165-1439-X .
  • Ingrid Mössinger , Kerstin Dechsel, Beate Ritter: Picasso et les femmes - Picasso and women . Dumont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7529-6 .
  • Françoise Gilot: Painting - Painting. Eds. Ingrid Mössinger and Beate L. Ritter, catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, museum edition ISBN 3-936646-40-6 ; Book trade edition ISBN 3-936646-33-3 .
  • Gertraude Clemenz-Kirsch: The women of Picasso. edition ebersbach, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86915-062-8 .
  • Wanderings and Wonderings of the Imagination , Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona 2003
  • Françoise Gilot, The Early Years: 1940-1955 , The Elkon Gallery, New York 1998
  • For Ever and a Day: Floating Paintings and Monotypes by Françoise Gilot , Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 1997
  • Anja Meulenbelt : You only have one job - to make me happy, About the impossibility of love between a woman and a man. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-498-04345-5 , p. 110.
  • Anamorphosis (with a foreword by Antoinette Fouque and an essay by F. Gilot), Editions des Femmes, Paris 1986

filming

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: self-promoter Picasso Photos. The I can do anything guy . Spiegel Online , July 10, 2012; Retrieved July 8, 2014
  2. ↑ Anja Meulenbelt: You only have one job - to make me happy, About the impossibility of love between woman and man. 1992, ISBN 3-498-04345-5 , p. 110.
  3. ↑ Michael Kimmelman: Picasso's Family Album . In: New York Times , April 28, 1996; Retrieved July 10, 2014
  4. ↑ Malte Herwig: "Picasso was like a Taliban" . SZ-Magazin , 29/2012; Retrieved July 3, 2014
  5. ^ Mel Yoakum: Internet site by F. Gilot
  6. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "G" / Gilot, Francoise, NA 1995 ( Memento of January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 23, 2015)
  7. ^ Awards from Françoise Gilot on artnet and own website for 2009
  8. ↑ Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris – Vallauris 1943–1953 . Gagosian Gallery, New York
  9. ↑ Picasso's unruly muse . rp-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Gilot, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilot, Marie Françoise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and lover of Pablo Picasso
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine