Artist Françoise Gilot, acclaimed painter who loved and later left Picasso, is dead at 101 | Jocelyn Noveck / AP National Writer

Françoise Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for well more than a half-century but was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent relationship with Pablo Picasso. Know more:

Artist Françoise Gilot poses with her work at a personal art exhibition in Milan on December 21, 1965. Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for well more than a half-century but was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent relationship with Pablo Picasso—and for leaving him—died Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in New York, where she had lived for decades. She was 101.

“He never saw it coming,” Engel said of her mother’s departure. “She was there because she loved him and because she really believed in that incredible passion of art which they both shared. [But] she came as a free, though very, very young, but very independent person.”“I’d been there of my own will, and I left of my own will,” she said, then 94. “That’s what I told him once, before I left. I said: ‘Watch out, because I came when I wanted to, but I will leave when I want.

That was the year she met Picasso, by chance, when she and a friend visited a restaurant on the Left Bank, amid a gathering that included his then-companion, Dora Maar. Her art only increased in value over the years. In 2021 her “Paloma à la Guitare” sold for $1.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction. Her work was shown in many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Her life with Picasso was illustrated in the 1996 movie “Surviving Picasso,” directed by James Ivory.

Engel noted that although the relationship with Picasso was clearly a difficult one, it gave her mother a certain freedom from her parents and the constraints of a bourgeois life—and perhaps enabled her to pursue her true dream of being a professional painter, a passion she shared with Picasso above all else.

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