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The Resource Life with Picasso, Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake ; introduction by Lisa Alther

Life with Picasso, Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake ; introduction by Lisa Alther

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Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso's two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso's muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become. Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake and published in 1961, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career
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eng
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xi, 343 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates
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Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1964
Isbn
9781681373195
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Life with Picasso
Title
Life with Picasso
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Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake ; introduction by Lisa Alther
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Language
eng
Summary
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso's two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso's muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become. Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake and published in 1961, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career
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individual biography
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DLC
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1921-
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Gilot, Françoise
Dewey number
  • 759.4
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
no index present
LC call number
ND553.P5
LC item number
G55 2019
Literary form
non fiction
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Lake, Carlton
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New York Review Classics
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  • Gilot, Françoise
  • Picasso, Pablo
  • Painters
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Life with Picasso, Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake ; introduction by Lisa Alther
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Publication
Note
Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1964
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
xi, 343 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781681373195
Lccn
2018025719
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • on1039206905
  • (OCoLC)1039206905
Label
Life with Picasso, Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake ; introduction by Lisa Alther
Publication
Note
Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1964
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
xi, 343 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781681373195
Lccn
2018025719
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • on1039206905
  • (OCoLC)1039206905

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