BLT Gallery
270 Bowery
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Françoise Gilot
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June 18, 2010 – Aug 15, 2010
Thursdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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“Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude and Paloma Picasso. There was also the controversial publication of her memoir, Life With Picasso, which Pablo Picasso tried, unsuccessfully, to stop. But Gilot, an accomplished artist in her own right, nonetheless has been influenced greatly by her contemporaries, such as the fauvists, and her lines and color palette are sometimes eerily reminiscent of those of her former flame (see Self-Portrait with Two of Diamonds). Her monotypes — a selection of contemporary work — are vivid, multi-dimensional contemplations of nature, both aesthetically and historically contextualized. Francophiles and art enthusiasts alike should hit up BLT Gallery for the exhibit of this storied figure.”
Rozalia Jovanovic, Flavorpill
BLT Gallery says:
Françoise Gilot is one of the premiere high modernists still working today, and with the recent death of Louise Bourgeois, we are endlessly confronted with the reality of the disappearance of artists whom obtain a truly historical awareness. Gilot's position is especially unique, as recounted in her memoir Life with Picasso, published in 1964, and more recently, Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art, in 1990. Gilot garnered her own symbolic stature as a painter demonstrating the formalistic language developed in part by her associations to the most influential painters of the 20th century. Gilot has also published a monograph that covers her life work from 1945-2000, and BLT is especially honored to present her most recent monotypes that were executed from 2009-10.
