Picasso Museum Will Show Work by Former Partner Françoise Gilot
As part of the reinstallation of its permanent collection, the Picasso Museum in Paris will now include a gallery dedicated to the work of Françoise Gilot, highlighting how the late artist was much more than Picasso’s former partner. In a statement, Picasso Museum president Cécile Debray said Gilot, who died in 2023 at age 101, was finally “being given her rightful place as an artist.” The Picasso Museum’s new installation of the Hôtel Salé will look at several decades of Gilot’s artistic career, including “her close association with the Réalités nouvelles group to the great totemic compositions of the ’emblematic paintings’ of the 1980s,” according to a press release. Related Articles Located in room 17, on the museum’s third floor, this section will also include a discussion of her best-selling 1964 memoir Life with Picasso, which presented a less than flattering view of her relationship with Picasso and which the Cubist tried to prevent from being published. Additionally, the room will be solely focused on Gilot as an artist and not feature paintings or photos …