The artist Françoise Gilot (1921–2023) repeatedly advised against retrospective thinking, particularly if that exercise results in pangs of regret. Such proclamations should typically be met with skepticism: it is difficult to imagine an eye that never turns, a mind that never roams.
NEW YORK Françoise Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for well more than a half-century but was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent relationship with Pablo Picasso and for leaving him died Tuesday in New York City, where she had lived for decades. She was 101. Gilot’s daughter, Aurelia Engel,…
Françoise Gilot, world-renowned artist and namesake for the gallery in the Donald W. Nixon Centre for Performing and Visual Arts, passed away Tuesday in New York City at the age