Tag Archives: Picasso

Pain and Painting

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Art for Housewives

The stars were especially bright that night. They twinkled at me so I twinkled back because I was in love walking arm in arm with the man I loved. A woman on the corner of Saint-Germain des Pres and Rue … Continue reading →

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Lee Miller

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Art for Housewives

One hot morning in July of 1937, I woke up needing to hug a tree. So Hugh suggested we drive to Mougins for a brief vacation because that area of the Côte d’Azur was full of pines, olives, and cypress … Continue reading →

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Brio and Bon Ton

Posted on November 13, 2022 by Art for Housewives

It was late November and, animated by the chill, I went to see the exhibition of Käthe Kollwitz’ etchings at the Obelisco in via Sistina. How the walls of the gallery could hold up so much pain I don’t know. … Continue reading →

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Is it Love or just Intuitive Thinking?

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Art for Housewives

It was the spring of 1943. He was 61 and she was only 21 when Pablo Picasso put a bowl of cherries on the table where Françoise Gilot was dining. Seeing her as his new muse, Picasso immediately dumped his … Continue reading →

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Todo es Nada

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Art for Housewives

Françoise Gilot was only 21 years old when she began her 10 year relationship with Picasso, then 61. Was it Dumas who said that if a woman were to know at 20 what she knows at 40, she would live … Continue reading →

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