Franoise Gilots candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists. Franoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixtyoneyearold Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a welltodo uppermiddleclass 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 Picassos two children Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picassos muses she was also very much her own woman determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become. Life with Picasso is an indispensable record of his thinking about art as well as an often very funny account of his relationships with other artists and with dealers and hangerson. It is also about Franoise Gilot. This is a brilliant selfportrait of a young woman of enormous talent and exacting intelligence figuring out who she wants to be. show more