The Guardian sits down with Françoise Gilot, the celebrated painter and former lover of Pablo Picasso, to discuss the artist’s life and work, and her relationship to the Spanish painter. “It was not what we call in French l’amour fou! Non! It was an intellectual dialogue as well. I could not say that it was a sentimental love. It was maybe an intellectual love, or a physical love, but certainly not a sentimental love,” she says. “It was love because we had good reason, each of us, to admire the other.”
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