Françoise Gilot

Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023) was a French painter. Gilot was already an accomplished artist, especially in watercolors and ceramics, when she met Pablo Picasso, but her professional career was eclipsed by her social celebrity, and when she split from Picasso he discouraged galleries from buying her work and unsuccessfully tried to block her 1964 memoir, Life with Picasso.

Quotes

 * [H]eavy load of his far-from-dead past, which was beginning to seem like an albatross around my neck.
 * Cited from book Life with Picasso with Gilot describing how Picasso's former partner's continuing to remain part of his life was affecting her.
 * Cited from book Life with Picasso with Gilot describing how Picasso's former partner's continuing to remain part of his life was affecting her.