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FRANÇOISE GILOT
Born
1921 | 26 November, Neuilly-sur-seine, France |
Education
1938 | Bachelor of Arts, (Philosophy), University of Paris, France |
1939 | Degree in English Literature, Cambridge University, British Institute, Paris |
1939-42 | Studied Law and Literature, University of Paris, France |
1941-42 | Studio of Endre Rozsda, Paris |
1943-45 | Academy Julian, Paris (prof. Jean Souverbie) |
| L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (prof. Jean Souverbie) |
Honors
2009 | Officier de la Legion d'Honneur, Presidence de la Republique, France |
1996 | Officier de l'ordre National du Merite, Presidence de la Republique, France |
1995 | Member of the National Acadamy of Design, New York |
1990 | Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, Ministere de la Culture, France |
1988 | Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Ministere de la Culture, France |
1982 | Doctorate of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Hofstra University, New York |
1978 | Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Ministere de la Culture, France |
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Self-Portrait, 1941 Pencil on Paper, 20 x 19 in. (50.5 x 48 cm.) Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Museum Exhibitions
2012 | May | Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville,Pennsylvania |
| April | Françoise Gilot Gallery at The Centre for the Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County, Newnan, Georgia |
2011 | November | Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Museum, Chemnitz, Germany |
| September | LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, Georgia |
| June | Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California |
2010 | June | Galerija-Muzej, Lendava, Slovenia |
| April | Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama Japan |
| April | Pecsi Kisgaleria, Pecs, Hungary |
| March | Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | November | Musee National de L'Orangerie, Paris, France |
2006 | October | Françoise Gilot Gallery at The Centre for the Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County, Newnan, Georgia |
2005 | January | The Centre for the Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County, Newnan, Georgia |
2004 | April | Chapelle de La Salamandre, Nimes, France |
2003 | September | Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Museum, Chemnitz, Germany |
2001 | September | Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania |
2000 | September | McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts |
1997 | May | Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania |
1996 | January | Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan |
1995 | March | Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania |
1994 | September | Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan |
| January | Severin Wunderman Museum, Irvine, California |
1993 | January | Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan |
1992 | October | Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California |
1990 | June | Tennessee Museum of Fine Arts, Memphis, Tennessee |
1989 | June | Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, California |
| May | Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California |
| February | Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas |
1988 | September | El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas |
1987 | September | Musee Picasso, Antibes, France |
| April | Musee du Palais des Papes, Avignon, France |
1982 | July | Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma |
| April | Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California |
1981 | May | Chattanooga Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee |
1977 | March | Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
1973 | December | Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Texas |
| November | Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
1972 | October | Midland Center for the Arts, Michigan |
1971 | October | Muskegon Art Museum, Muskegon, Michigan |
1970 | September | Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida |
| June | Southampton Museum of Art, New York |
University And Cultural Exhibitions
2008 | October | Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California |
2007 | October | New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York |
2004 | January | Cultural Center of th French Embassy, New York |
1996 | March | Cultural Center of the French Embassy, New York |
| March | Florida Atlantic University, Schmidt Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida |
1995 | September | University of Michigan, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
1994 | March | New York University, La Maison Francaise, New York |
1992 | February | California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, California |
1989 | June | University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1988 | February | Hofstra University Museum, New York |
1984 | March | California State University at Fresno, Fresno, California |
1982 | March | University of Southern California, Idyllwild Campus, California |
1980 | November | Columbia University, New York |
1979 | October | Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California |
1974 | January | University of San Diego, San Diego, California |
Museum Collections
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Still Life with Open Wings, 1946 Oil on board, 28 x 36 in. ( 73 x 92 cm.) Collection: Musee Picasso, Antibes |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts |
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana |
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan |
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris |
Musee Picasso, Antibes, France |
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania |
National Acadamy of Design, New York |
Musee de Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel |
Women's Museum, Washington, D.C. |
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (complete collection of original prints) |
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas |
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida |
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California |
Wichita State University Museum, Wichita, Kansas |
Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana |
Ferris State College, Big Rapids, Michigan |
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California |
Scripps College, Claremont, California |
Numerous U.S. Foreign Embassies
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Books Authored
2011 | Françoise Gilot — Works 1984 — 2010 , (with Aurelia Engel), ArtAcatos Sarl, Vaumarcus, Switzerland |
2004 | Dans L'Arene avec Picasso, (with Annie Maillis), Editions Indigene, Montpellier, France |
2000 | Françoise Gilot Monograph 1940-2000, (with Mel Yoakum, Ph.D.), Acatos, Lausanne |
1996 | Picasso et la Mediterranee retrouvee, (with Maurice Frechuret), Gregoire Gardette Editions, France |
1990 | Matisse & Picasso, A Friendship in Art, Doubleday, New York |
1987 | An Artist's Journey, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York |
1983 | Interface: The Painter and the Mask, The Press at California State University, Fresno, California |
1976 | The Fugitive Eye (poems and drawings), Aeolian Press, San Diego, California |
1975 | Le Regard et son Masque, Calmann-Levy, Paris, France |
1975 | Paloma Sphynx (A fable with drawings), Paris, France |
1972 | Sur la Pierre (poems and lithographs), Montcalm Gallery, Michigan |
1964 | Life With Picasso, (with Carlton Lake), McGraw-Hill, New York |
Important Exhibition Catalogues
2012 | Françoise Gilot, Paris — Vallauris, 1943 — 1953, The Gagosian Gallery, New York
Essays: John Richardson, Françoise Gilot, Charles Stuckey and Michael Cory |
2011 | Françoise Gilot, at 90, Drawings 1941 — 2010, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
Edited: Ingrid Mössinger, Director, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and Kerstin Drechsel Essay: Anna-Marie Bonnet Interview: Peter Iden |
2007 | Françoise Gilot, Compositions, 2002 — 2005, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York
Forward: Graham Nickson Essays: Françoise Gilot and Louise Tolliver Deutschman (exhibition curator)
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2006 | Françoise Gilot, Portraits From a Life, The Elkon Gallery Inc., New York
Essay: Françoise Gilot
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2005 | Above, Below and Beyond, The Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County, Newnan, Georgia
Forward: Donald W. Nixon, Coordinator of Fine Arts
Essay: Françoise Gilot and Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Director, The F. Gilot Archives
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2003 | Françoise Gilot Painting — Malerei, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
Edited: Ingrid Mössinger, Director, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and Beate L. Ritter
Essays: Françoise Gilot Evelyn Weiss, former Assistant Director, Museum Lugwig, Germany
Interview: Wilfried Wiegand, Cultural Correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Notes and Biography: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Director, The F. Gilot Archives
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Cover of the catalog Monotypes, published by Berggruen & Cie, Paris. |
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2003 | Wanderings and Wonderings of the Imagination Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
Essay: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Curator, F. Gilot Archives |
2001 | Françoise Gilot: 1940-1950, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art as Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Forward: Lisa Tremper Hanover, Director, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Essay: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Curator, F. Gilot Archives |
2000 | Françoise Gilot, Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris
Essay: James Lord |
1998 | Françoise Gilot, The Early Years: 1940-1955, The Elkon Gallery, Inc., New York Preface: Dina Vierny (translated by Jan Hokenson, Ph.D.) Text: Françoise Gilot |
1998 | Françoise Gilot, Fall Galerie, Paris
Preface: Françoise Gilot
Essay: Andre Verdet |
1997 | For Ever and a Day: Floating Paintings and Monotypes by Françoise Gilot, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Preface: Lisa Tremper Barnes, Director, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art Forward: Françoise Gilot Essay: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Curator, F. Gilot Archives |
1995 | Stone Echoes: Original Prints by Françoise Gilot, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Preface: Lisa Tremper Barnes, Director, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art Foreword: Jacques Mourlot, Director, Mourlot Atelier, Paris Text: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Curator, F. Gilot Archives |
1993 | The Gods of Greece, Doubleday, New York Preface: Françoise Gilot Text: Arianna Huffington |
1990 | Françoise Gilot: Monotypes, Berggruen, Paris, France
Preface: Helene Ahrweiler, Georges Pompidou National Centre, Paris Judith Solodkin, Solo Press, New York |
1987 | An Artist's Journey, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York Preface: Daniele Giraudy, Director, Musee Picasso, Antibes, France Interview: Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Text: Françoise Gilot |
1986 | Anamorphosis, Editions des Femmes, Paris, France Preface: Antoinette Fouque Essay: Françoise Gilot |
1979 | Françoise Gilot: A Retrospective 1943-1978, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Text: Susan Barnes Robinson, Ph.D.
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Books Illustrated
1993 | Alther, Lisa, Birdman and the Dancer |
1983 | Colette, Break of Day, serigraphs by F. Gilot |
1953 | Prevert, I., Vignette pour les Vignerons |
1952 | Miguel, Andre, Infus Amour, with original lithographs by F. Gilot |
1951 | Verdet, Andre, Pages d'Amour, with original lithographs by F. Gilot |
1951 | Eluard, Paul, Pouvoir Tout Dire, with an original lithograph by F. Gilot |
Directorships
1972-1977 | Art Director, Virginia Woolf Quarterly, San Diego, California |
1976-1983 | Chairperson, Department of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, The Isomata Program, Idyllwild, California |
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