Asked by Pierre DUMAYET about her relationship with Pablo Picasso, Françoise GILOT admits that she never really felt free to be by her side and that her entiments were often ambivalent.
Daily life with Pablo Picasso according to his ex-wife Françoise Gilot. Every morning Picasso got up around noon in a bad mood, he had to be given good reasons to get up....
Françoise GILOT explains that she never considered living in the shadow of Picasso despite his strong personality, and that she has always lived her notoriety with a lot of hindsight. Especially because she met him during the war, when he wasn’t around much.
Françoise GILOT is in France to present her exhibition "anamorphoses" at the bookshop-gallery of women. After many years in England and then in the United States where she resides, she made known her works in France.
Interviewed by Bernard PIVOT, Françoise GILOT, painter and former companion of Picasso, explains that she does not feel more emotion in front of the portraits of her made by the Spanish painter than in front of other paintings. She has no pride or melancholy.