Life with Picasso

"Life with Picasso" is a fascinating memoir offering insight into the intimate and creative life shared by two modern artists. When Françoise Gilot met Pablo Picasso, she was a young woman with a passion for art, who set out to become a painter. Over ten years, she developed a relationship with Picasso that resulted in two children, but she was also determined to make a name for herself in the art world. This candid and often funny book is an indispensable record of Picasso's thinking about art and his relationships with others, as well as a portrait of a young woman becoming the remarkable artist she was meant to be.