Francoise Gilot News
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A 1909 Wassily Kandinsky painting sold for a record $23 million, one of the few bright spots at Christie’s last night as nearly a third of the Impressionist and modern art went unsold.
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Picasso biographer John Richardson stopped in front of “Bather Wringing Her Hair,” in which the artist’s mistress and muse Francoise Gilot appears as an awkwardly arched nude with her hair twisted in her chubby fists.
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Pablo Picasso met Francoise Gilot, then a 21-year-old painter, in a Paris restaurant in 1943 during the Nazi occupation, and the two became lovers. While artists such as Max Ernst fled Paris for the U.S., Picasso hung tough even though the Germans prohibited his art from being shown.
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In Francoise Gilot’s 1964 memoir, “Life with Picasso,” a famous photograph shows the couple walking together at a sunny resort on France’s Cote d’Azur. Picasso, 40 years her senior, follows dutifully behind his beautiful mistress and holds a large beach umbrella high above her head -- as if he were her slave and she his princess.
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U.S. billionaire Wilbur Ross paid $11.3 million for a Rene Magritte painting in London last night as collectors battled for Impressionist and modern art.
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London’s hip contemporary art fair Frieze is making its New York debut on Randall’s Island this week.
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Christie’s International held its smallest New York evening Impressionist and modern art sale in 2 1/2 years, at the outset of an auction fortnight expected to total as much as $1.5 billion.
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Pablo Picasso was not your typical senior citizen. He lived in the south of France with women half his age, fathered more children, and remarried at 79.
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) had an epic life. He lived to be almost 92 years old, enjoyed almost uninterrupted health and success, and worked virtually every day for more than seven decades.
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The beautiful, sad-looking Olga Kokhlova, a dancer with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, sits with her right arm draped over the back of a chair, a partially open fan in her lap. The dark floral patterns of her dress and the upholstery stand out against the flat background of pale gold.
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