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The French painter and memoirist, who worked in Paris, London and the United States, showed elegance and ferocity in her work and a remarkable versatility as a colourist
When Françoise Gilot first met Pablo Picasso one afternoon in May 1943 — he spotted her at Le Catalan restaurant in Paris and brought her a bowl of cherries
The death was confirmed by her daughter Aurelia Engel, who said Gilot had recently been dealing with heart and lung ailment
French painter who wrote about her relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso in a bestselling book
Their tempestuous decade-long relationship was ‘a catastrophe I didn’t want to avoid’; but she left, tired of his control and philandering