Françoise Gaime Gilot (1921 – 2023). French painter. Gilot was an accomplished artist, notably in watercolors and ceramics, and a bestselling memoirist of the book Life with Picasso.
Gilot's artwork is showcased in more than a dozen leading museums including the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2021 her painting Paloma à la guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby's in London.
Gilot is also known for her romantic partnership with Pablo Picasso as well as her later marriage to Jonas Salk, the American researcher who developed the first safe polio vaccine.
- “I arrived on time wearing a black velvet dress with a high white lace collar, my dark red hair done up in a coiffure I had taken from a painting of the Infanta by Velázquez.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/style/francoise-gilot-it-girl.html
- "Matisse declares that he wishes to make a portrait of Françoise in which her auburn hair would become green and her complexion light blue." http://www.francoisegilot.com/bio40s.php
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