“You might say that I am a little bit hard-boiled. I have to admit that I was never so much in love with anyone that I could not consider my own plan.”
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Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gaime Gilot was a French painter. Gilot first made her mark in the post-war milieu of artists who redefined the European artistic landscape. With a career that spanned more than seven decades, her work was largely produced in watercolors and ceramics, and combined elements of abstraction, figuration, and symbolism, often drawing on mythology, personal experience, and themes of transforma…
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culture · French painter (1921–2023) · painter · model · illustrator · art critic · writer · visual artist · lithographer · draftsperson · graphic artist · also Françoise Gilot, Marie Françoise Gilot, Francoise Picasso Gilot, Francoise Gilot, Francoise Picasso, Françoise Gilot Simon
Born 26 November 1921 · Died 6 June 2023 · Q540665
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2026· 4 entries
“I live my own life in my own way.”
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“felt painting was my whole life”
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“That is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. Girls who look like you could never be painters.”
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2025· 1 entry
A public square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris was named Rue Françoise Gilot in her memory
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2024· 4 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: Françoise Gilot’s Artistic Career Persisted Long After She Left Picasso. Now, She’s Getting an Exhibition in Paris
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Yahoo: Picasso tried to destroy her - now Françoise Gilot has her own gallery in his museum
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Hyperallergic: Picasso Museum Is Showing Françoise Gilot’s Work, Finally
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The Musée Picasso in Paris reinstalled its permanent collection to include a dedicated gallery highlighting Françoise Gilot's work and career, recognizing her as an artist in her own right rather than solely Picasso's fo
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2023· 9 entries
Awarded Council of Paris (2023).
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The Washington Post: Françoise Gilot, celebrated artist, writer and muse to Picasso, dies at 101
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KESQ News: Françoise Gilot, artist whose career transcended her relationship with Picasso, has died at 101
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Fox News: Françoise Gilot, acclaimed painter and muse to Pablo Picasso, dies at 101 years old
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KPBS: Françoise Gilot, the famed artist who loved and then left Picasso, is dead at 101
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Yahoo: Françoise Gilot, French painter who inspired then left Picasso, dead at 101
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Artnet: Artist Françoise Gilot, Who Chronicled Her Turbulent Decade-Long Relationship With Picasso, Is Dead at 101
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Died 2023-06-06.
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New York Post: Picasso gets the attention, but his ‘muse’ Françoise Gilot deserves her credit
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2022· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the National Order of Merit (2022).
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Smithsonian Magazine: Françoise Gilot Was More Than Picasso’s Muse
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nytimes.com: Françoise Gilot: ‘It Girl’ at 100
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2021· 1 entry
Her painting Paloma à la Guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1
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2019· 1 entry
“Steinhauer, Jillian (23 December 2019). Fire and Brimstone - The entwined lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso. The Nation.”
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2018· 1 entry
Artnet: Picasso’s Former Muse Françoise Gilot, Now 96, Debuts Worldly Drawings of Her Own—See Them Here
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2017· 1 entry
CBS News: Artist Françoise Gilot, on life with and after Picasso
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2010· 1 entry
Was named an Officer of the Légion d'honneur, the French government's highest honour for the arts
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2009).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the National Order of Merit (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
The couple lived apart for half of every year as Gilot continued to paint in New York City, La Jolla, and Paris
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1990).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1988).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Hofstra University (1982).
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1976· 1 entry
Joined the board of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, where she taught summer courses and took on organizational responsibilities until 1983
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1973· 1 entry
Gilot was appointed art director of the scholarly journal Virginia Woolf Quarterly
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1969· 1 entry
Gilot was introduced to the American inventor Jonas Salk at the home of mutual friends in La Jolla, California
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1964· 1 entry
11 years after their separation, Gilot wrote Life with Picasso (with the art critic Carlton Lake), a book that sold over one million copies in dozens of languages, despite an unsuccessful legal challenge from Picasso att
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1952· 1 entry
In Paris, which became a critical moment in her life and career
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1947· 1 entry
And their daughter, Paloma, was born in 1949
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1943· 1 entry
After which Gilot signed a contract with the renowned art dealer Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler
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1942· 1 entry
After abandoning law several times and returning on the insistence of her father, Gilot studied law for a second year and passed her written exams, but failed her oral exams
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1939· 1 entry
Attended the British Institute in Paris and received a certificate in English proficiency issued by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-11-26.
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