Article: GILOT'S WARM PORTRAIT OF PICASSO, MATISSE

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 ...

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