At 21, Françoise Gilot met Pablo Picasso, then 61, and moved in with him. “When Françoise Gilot decided to take her two young children and leave Pablo Picasso in 1953, ending their ten-year relationship, the infuriated genius told her she was ‘headed straight for the desert’ because no one would ever have more than ‘a kind of curiosity . . . about a person whose life has touched mine so intimately.’ He was wrong.” Click here to read more about the muse/artist and author of Life with Picasso.
