Françoise Gilot met Pablo Picasso in Paris in May 1943. She exhibited her paintings for the first time, while Picasso was at the height of his fame.
After ten years of living together and the birth of two children, Claude and Paloma, she had chosen to break with the master, forty years her senior, to lead her career and free her life. She will continue to testify to the life of the master through interviews or books, such as the one she devoted to Picasso's rivalry with Matisse.