Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso
- he was sixty-two & she was twenty-one During the following ten years they were lovers worked closely together & she became mother to two of his children Claude & Paloma LIFE WITH PICASSO her account of those extraordinary years is filled with intimate & astonishing revelations about the man his work his thoughts & his friends
- Matisse Braque Gertrude Stein & 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 & to his views on art