Here’s something to add to my wish list! A $200 limited edition set of facsimile sketchbooks by Françoise Gilot. I highly recommend her book Life with Picasso — it’s a fascinating look not just at Picasso and his work but at Gilot’s own life and thoughts about art.
Françoise Gilot, now 96, is best known for the decade she spent as girlfriend and muse to Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. But she is also an accomplished artist in her own right, often making work that tiptoes between abstraction and figuration. Now, Gilot has released a new facsimile edition of three of her sketchbooks, created between 1974 and 1981.
“Françoise Gilot. Three Travel Sketchbooks: Venice, India, Senegal,” is a new book from Picasso’s lover, published by Taschen.
Amazon doesn’t seem to have this listed, probably because it’s a limited edition of 5,000 copies, but you can buy it direct from the Taschen website.