Fran?oise Gilot

Art was the only permanent passion in Picasso’s life. As for relationships with women, he always showed his inconstancy. Love relationships with Picasso warped several lives – some women went mad or took their own lives. The story of Fran?oise Gilot is unique: after 10 years spent with Picasso she left him to live a long and intense life.

“I met Picasso in May, 1943, during the German occupation. I just turned twenty one, and I already realized that pictorial art was my mission,” that’s how she started her book Life with Picasso, memoirs of Fran?oise Gilot. At the time of their first meeting Picasso was 62. A disparity in years and Francoise’s independent nature determined specificity of their relationships: at first she was his admirer and a student, they became lovers half a year later only.

To embody the image of Francoise Pablo turned to lithography, and in 1945-1946 he created a series of her portraits in that technique. Eyes wide open and slightly asymmetrically set, a thin nose and a small mouth are represented with simple and bold lines.

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