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Our October read ~ Life with Picasso
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Is anyone planning to join me in the discussion of this book in another week? It just now came in at my library so I will hope to have most of it completed in time. Just curious who else out there is reading along and how things are going.
Count me in. I'm being a bit naughty - I started the book this morning. I just couldn't keep my hands off it any longer......... The title and subject really intrigued me.I reserved it at my local library and they got it in last week.
Great! I just got it this morning and will try to start ASAP. I can't wait to be nosy and peek into his life ;o)
Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. LIFE WITH PICASSO, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts and his friends - Matisse, Braque, Gertrude Stein and Giacometti among others. Francois Gilot paints a compelling portrait of her turbulent life with the temperamental genius that was Picasso. She is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and to his views on art...