FRANÇOISE GILOT CAME OF AGE AS AN ARTIST IN THE EARLY 1940S AND HAS BEEN PURSUING A BOLD, MODERNIST VISION EVER SINCE.
AN ARTIST WHO IS CAPTURING THE WORLD HOW SHE SEES IT.
Today Gilot’s work is found in important museums globally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris.
She was awarded the Officier de la Legion d’Honneur bestowed by the French government in 1990. Gilot has been called one of the most respected female artists of the 20th century.
SNEAK PEEK INTO THE LIFE OF FRANCOISE GILOT
Born in 1921 , Francoise was the only child Emile Gilot and Madeleine Renault-Gilot
Marie -Florence married Edmon Gilot (1856-1911)
Edmon was owned a well-known Paris shop that sold and specialized in imported and quite exotic foods. Also, later he became a photographer and among the first to produce “ colour photographs” which with upmost certain introduced Francoise to the world of “ colour” ever so prevalent in her paintings, whether the family DNA or surrounding of colour at a young age something triggered her vast array of colours yet to come.
“As a woman who was part of the School of Paris, she held her own ground”
said Lisa Tremper Hanover, interim director of operations for the Berman Museum, referring to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.
“Gilot’s language and vocabulary is one of modernism, she plays and experiments with unnatural form and color, particularly with the potential to evoke emotional responses in a viewer.”
said Deborah Barkun, creative director of the Berman Museum.