Life with Picasso, Carlton Lake
Life with Picasso, Carlton Lake
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Life with Picasso

Author: Carlton Lake, Francoise Gilot, Lisa Alther

Narrator: Mary Sarah

Unabridged: 15 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/21/2020


Synopsis

Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class 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 Picasso's two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso's muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.

Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake and published in 1961, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.

About Carlton Lake

Carlton Lake (1915-2006) was an art critic and collector, and the Paris art critic for The Christian Science Monitor. He contributed essays, short stories, and conversations with Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Henry Moore, and Giacometti to several publications. He donated his vast collection of art-350,000 French literary materials-to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin, where Lake was once the director and where the items can still be viewed today.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Caddy

I have never had it take me so long to finish a book that I really loved, but life has been crazy. I finally finished yesterday and found this book to be an intriguing, fascinating, and revealing book about one of the greatest artists of all time. Being a painter myself, I have always admired Picasso......more

کتاب در واقع اتوبیوگرافی فرانسوا ژیلو ، معشوقه ی پیکاسوست از مدت ده سالی که با پیکاسو زندگی می کرده...این کتاب یازده سال بعد از جدایی این دو به چاپ رسید و علی رغم همه تلاش های پیکاسو برای جلوگیری از توزیعش به چندین زبان ترجمه شد و به فروش بالایی رسید پیکاسو بعد از انتشار این کتاب، هرگز دو فرزندی که ا......more

Goodreads review by William

I loved her accounts of meeting Matisse, Braque, Alice B Toklas, Gertrude Stein and others. I came away with the feeling that Picasso was a monster, not only to her, but to all his wives and girlfriends. (Secret confession: I have never liked Picasso's work either, though I see that he worked in man......more