Comprehensive Exhibit Spotlights a Picasso Muse
- May 28, 2012 22:50
Humor, adulation, tenderness, passion and complexity---the qualities of a love affair---unfold in “Picasso and Francoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris, 1943-1953,” on view now through June 20 at New York's Gagosian Gallery.
Paintings, sculpture, drawings, and ceramic plates tell the story of Picasso's romance with Francoise Gilot (born 1921); his muse and mistress was forty years younger and the mother of his two children, Claude and Paloma. Their ten-year relationship coincided with a transformative artistic period for Picasso.
Comprising about 180 works, it is the fourth show in a series organized by Picasso biographer John Richardson for the gallery.
100x100_c.jpg "Two Nayarit (Mexico) seated musician figures with instruments, reddish ceramic with pigments and manganese, 200 BCE to 200 CE. Sizes: Larger figure 15¼in x 8in, smaller figure 15in x 10in. Estimate: $4,000-$6,000")
![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
