French artist Françoise Gilot, born in 1921, can look back on a long history. As a painter of the Nouvelle École de Paris after the war, her work hovers between abstraction and figuration, drawing as much on nature and everyday life as on moods and imagination. She has published a number of books, not just her famous Life with Picasso, in which she recounts her experiences of 10 years at the side of the most famous artist of the 20th century, but also poetry and stories with her own illustrations.
Born in 1921 in Neuilly, France, Françoise Gilot is a painter, printmaker, and writer. She started showing her work in the 1940s as part of the Nouvelle École de Paris movement, and she has since had many international gallery and museum exhibitions and has received awards and honors, including the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and was made an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Her poetry books and memoirs on 20th-century art include the best-selling Life with Picasso (1964) as well as Interface: The Painter and the Mask (1975) and Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art (1990). She lives and works in New York.
Thérèse Crémieux is an actress and dramatist who has played in films by Robert Altman, Claude Lelouch, Laurent Heynemann, and Jacques Demy as well as in French theater. She collaborated on her own solo pieces with writer Philippe Ferran and directors Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, John Pepper, and Robert Cantarella. Her first play, Scènes étrangères, was produced at the Comédie-Française, and since 2011 she has written and published a number of plays including L’Art de la séparation, which takes place in Munich in 1933, Superstition, Dernière séance, and Low Cost.
Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor specializing in contemporary art and photography. His TASCHEN publications include the Collector’s Editions Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Ai Weiwei, and the David Hockney SUMO A Bigger Book, as well as monographs like the XXL-sized Jean-Michel Basquiat and survey books such as Modern Art and Art Now! Vols 3 and 4.