Artist Francoise Gilot dies at 101

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Françoise Gilot, a painter who wrote a famed 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso, has died at 101. The New York Times reported that she died in New York on Tuesday.
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“In the course of her long life, Françoise Gilot has consistently been true to herself, even as she has repeatedly invented herself,” Markus Müller writes in the new book Picasso: The Women in His Life: An Homage. “She had to wait until her one-hundredth year to see a work of hers—an affectionate portrait of her daughter, Paloma, dating from 1965—break the magical one-million euro barrier at auction; but in an age in which people are more interested in price than in value, this can undoubtedly be read as a kind of material consecration of her life’s work.”

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1. Gilot later married Jonas Salk

An interesting life. Two children with Picasso. Then married Luc Simon and had a third child. Was married to Jonas Salk from 1970 until his death in 1975. A major artist in her own right.