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Glen Mazzara's Top Book Recommendations

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Life with Picasso

Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.

Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when, in 1943, she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso. Brought up in upper-middle-class comfort and educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne in the hopes that she would go into the law, the young woman defied her family’s wishes—and her father’s wrath—and set out to become an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and...
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Recommended by Glen Mazzara, Stephanie Kelley, and 2 others.

Glen MazzaraJust finished this great book. An amazing read by a brilliant woman exploring all the complexities of being an artist - not just Picasso but herself as well. In all honesty, one of the best books I’ve ever read. https://t.co/bz9aePjjVJ (Source)

Stephanie KelleyThis book is a remarkably humane but damning diagnosis of a man and his faults, a testament to a great artist, an invaluable document providing a rare look behind the curtain at the fierce debates and relationships among artists in Picasso’s circle. (Source)

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