
Françoise Gilot
French(November 26, 1921 – 2023)
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Françoise Gilot, Luminous Force of Modern Painting
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When Françoise Gilot died in June 2023 at the age of 101, the art world paused to reckon with a loss that felt both immense and clarifying. Here was a painter who had worked prolifically across eight decades, who had studied law before devoting herself entirely to color and form, and who had outlived nearly every artist of her generation by simply continuing to paint. The tributes that followed were unanimous in one conviction: that Gilot had always been far more than the biographical footnote that lazy cultural shorthand had sometimes tried to make her. She was, above all, a major painter.… Continue reading
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