Shunned, boycotted, exiled: has France treated Françoise Gilot worse than Picasso did? |
"Gilot called Picasso Bluebeard, not out of affection but because, in her own words, “he wanted to cut off all the heads of the women he collected”. Subjected to Picasso’s cruel and abusive behaviour, in 1953 she became the only one of his partners to ever walk away, taking their two children, Claude and Paloma (aged six and four respectively). They went to live in her apartment on Paris’s Left Bank.
Picasso, enraged, destroyed her possessions, including artworks, books and her treasured letters from Matisse. Telling her she was “headed straight for the desert”, he then set out to destroy her career. Mobilising all his networks, he demanded that the Louise Leiris Gallery stop representing Gilot and that she no longer be invited to exhibit at the Salon de Mai. Explained away as the unfortunate behaviour of a moody genius, today this aggressive intervention is finally being seen for what it was: the devastating actions of a bully."
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