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Article: GILOT'S WARM PORTRAIT OF PICASSO, MATISSE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
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- November 14, 1990
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MATISSE AND PICASSO
A Friendship in Art
By Francoise Gilot
Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 339 pages, $30, illustrated
The friendship of Matisse and Picasso involved mutual respect.
Their admiration for each other was genuine, but so was a covert
rivalry, which gave rise to such art-world japes as the gossip that
Picasso, finding a hair in his soup, exclaimed it resembled a line
drawing by Matisse.
Francoise Gilot, Picasso's companion from 1946 till 1954, has
previously written (with Carlton Lake) an enlightening personal
history, "Life With Picasso." The present volume, recording the
spiky friendship between the greatest painters of this century, is
a beguiling memoir as well. Not only does ...