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appalachiablue

(42,903 posts)
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 04:22 PM Mar 2024

Francoise Gilot Art Exhibit, Picasso Museum, Paris, Ex- Partner He Tried to Destroy

- Picasso Museum to show work of Françoise Gilot, ex-partner he tried to destroy, The Guardian, March 12, 2024. - Gilot, who was shunned and castigated in France after splitting from Picasso, to have space in Paris museum dedicated to her art

When the artist Françoise Gilot walked out on Pablo Picasso after a long and turbulent relationship, he told her she would be nothing without him and set out to destroy her career.

Gilot later recalled how her former lover told her: “You imagine people will be interested in you? They won’t ever, really, just for yourself …
It will only be a kind of curiosity they will have about a person whose life touched mine so intimately.”

After the split, Picasso and his influential friends in France’s artistic and intellectual circles waged what she described as a “war” on her, eventually forcing her to leave France and settle in the US, where she rebuilt her life and career and continued to paint until her death in 2023 at the age of 101...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/12/picasso-museum-to-show-work-of-francoise-gilot-ex-partner-he-tried-to-destroy


- Francoise Gilot, 'You Put Your Energy into the Painting,' Tate Museum, 2013. Gilot age 91.

- Francoise Gilot, Wiki
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Gilot


- The Musee Picasso, Paris, in the historic, 17th c. Hotel Sale bldg., located in Le Marais neighborhood. The museum opened in 1985 and was expanded c. 2010.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Picasso

The Marais, Paris.
https://thegoodlifefrance.com/marais-paris/
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Francoise Gilot Art Exhibit, Picasso Museum, Paris, Ex- Partner He Tried to Destroy (Original Post) appalachiablue Mar 2024 OP
She outlived him by nearly 50 years Vogon_Glory Mar 2024 #1
She did, a talented, fascinating and strong woman. They met in Paris appalachiablue Mar 2024 #2
Well, this info just overturned YEARS... ret5hd Mar 2024 #3
Cool song and video, tx for posting. An exceptional appalachiablue Mar 2024 #4

appalachiablue

(42,903 posts)
2. She did, a talented, fascinating and strong woman. They met in Paris
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 04:45 PM
Mar 2024

in 1943 when Francoise was 21 and Picasso was age 61. After 10 years they split and she moved on to have a long, interesting life.

ret5hd

(21,320 posts)
3. Well, this info just overturned YEARS...
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 04:55 PM
Mar 2024

of my opinion of ol’ Pablo…cuz i think SOMEONE sure called him an asshole:

appalachiablue

(42,903 posts)
4. Cool song and video, tx for posting. An exceptional
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 05:06 PM
Mar 2024

20th c artist, Picasso needed women but could def treat them badly and replace them easily.

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