Life with Picasso.

GILOT, Francoise and Carlton Lake.

$400.00

Item Number: 147265

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973.

First edition, early printing of this revealing memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Elaine and Jim McDonald, Francoise Gilot.” Additionally dated in the year of publication in another hand “11-10-73.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

"[Francoise Gilot] is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and to his views on art . . . Picasso's intentions, his way of working and his fearless invention are brilliantly revealed" (Aline Saarinen, New York Times Book Review). "The portrait of Picasso that emerges . . . has a monumentality, a richness and diversity and intensity of being that could have been captured only by a woman of uncommon gifts" (Paul Pickrel, Harper's Magazine).