New York, New York
–
Françoise Gilot is one of the premiere high modernists
still working today, and with the recent death of Louise Bourgeois, we
are
endlessly confronted with the reality of the disappearance of artists
whom
obtain a truly historical awareness. Gilot’s position is especially
unique, as
recounted in her memoir Life with
Picasso, published in 1964, and more recently, Matisse and
Picasso: A Friendship in
Art, in 1990. Gilot garnered her own symbolic stature as a painter
demonstrating the formalistic language developed in part by her
associations to
the most influential painters of the 20^th
century. On view from
June 17 through August 15, 2010