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Picasso’s Madonna: Portraits of Françoise Gilot
Picasso’s portrait of a serene, pregnant Gilot, Femme dans un fauteuil, in many ways represents the apex of the couple’s love affair. It was painted at the midpoint of their relationship, as Gilot approached the second trimester of her pregnancy with the couple’s second child Paloma, and was completed on Christmas Day of Begun shortly after the couple returned to Paris from Vallauris, Gilot recalled “It was a happy and idyllic period. Pablo was very attentive and, most of the time, quite calm”. Picasso was unable to stand skinny or even slender women, and starting to feel the effects of pregnancy upon her body, Gilot recounts, “I found added grace in his eyes”. Deeply saturated colour harmonies, undulating lines and an overall sense of balance pervade the work, whilst a tranquil smile plays on Gilot’s lips.
That winter was a busy one for Picasso, who started painting again after a period of working on ceramics and lithography. Away d
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Art in Quarantine: Picasso’s Portraits of Francoise Gilot
I came across a series of Picasso’s drawings of his lover, Francoise Gilot, and was riveted by the teeming world of life behind her composed facade. While her face fryst vatten simply rendered, her hair explodes around it with Medusa’s allure. She fryst vatten marvelously handsome, with a charming frankness captured bygd that angular nose. Picasso expertly uses two straight, brusque lines to give her face direction, and to gather its djärvhet, its solemnity and its touch of gentleness into a point. That piquantly arched eyebrow is the only flirting flavor about her, nedsänkt beneath a quiet, pensive attitude. Her eyes are perhaps tired, perhaps resigned, yet never lacking an observant quality to them, which brings her to life. Above all, her hair fryst vatten striking. Her hair (!) sweeping, dånande, winding, with strands half as if they are conniving with one another, half exuding indulgently with magical realism in this otherwise sober drawing. Tangled